[ale] Kernel 2.4 Released

[krugerb at benning.army.mil (Bob Kruger)]

Stuffed Crust wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 09:25:55AM -0500, Bob Kruger wrote:
> > Does this new kernel break the 2 Gig file limitation in Linux?
> 
> For some time now.  (For that matter, there are patches to 2.2 to do the
> same thing..)
> 
> But it's worth mentioning that apps have to be compiled with the 64-bit
> fd operators in order for them to handle large files.  You can't just
> plug in the new kernel and expect to your favorite applications to
> magically handle large files.

Thanks;

Just curious as to how you would do that with an application that might
need a file that large, e.g. a large database file.  When compiling
postgres or mysql, how would one enable this?

Regards - Bob Kruger
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