LFS

[Urban Widmark]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> David Embury wrote:
> > 
> > Does the latest stable version of samba support large files > 1 TB?  I would
> > like to use a linux server for backing up large data base files.  I have
> > 2.0.7 installed on Redhat 7.0 with the 2.4.2 Kernel, and samba does not
> > handle any files over 4GB.  If you have any sugestions, please let me know.
> > The new Kernel supports files up to 2 TB on the ext2 file system.
> 
> 2.0.7 does support 64 bit files on systems that support it.
> The rpm shipped with RedHat won't have been compiled that
> way I suspect.
> 
> Try recompiling from source.

Compiling samba 2.0.7 (or 2.2.0) on RH7 + 2.4.x kernel + latest glibc 2.2
rpm does not give LFS. It prints something about disabling for glibc 2.1.