[Zope] Re: Largefile support error

[Chris McDonough]

Hmmm.. that's an fairly old Linux kernel version (my best guess is ~Nov.
2001?).  I suspect your system doesn't do large files.  Did you try to
do the "dd" command that Josef suggested to see if you were able to
create large files at all?

If you can't, I think you'll need to upgrade your Linux kernel/glibc to
"something" that can handle it.  I dimly remember that this was a murky
task at the time with many steps and little hard information about which
kernel version and/or glibc versions to upgrade to, and little
information about whether some utilities needed to be recompiled to
handle large files.  It's probably easier to just upgrade to a later
distribution revision and not try to upgrade "in-place".

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 16:23, Eddie Parker wrote:
> Hello Josef!
> 
> Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you:
> 
> Uname -a reports:
> 
> Linux server 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown
> 
> But I'm not sure how to delve the info on my glibc version, and type of
> filesystem (sorry, it's been a while).. Can you give me any information
> on how to find this out? 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -e-
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-bounces at zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces at zope.org] On Behalf Of
> Josef Meile
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:13 PM
> To: zope at zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Re: Largefile support error
> 
>  > I'm running Debian, specifically 'woody', and I'm trying to compile 
> using
>  > Python 2.3.3. I'll try my luck with the Python guys, as well, but if
>  > someone else knows what's going on - I'd be most appreciative! :)
> 
> Which linux kernel, glibc, and filesystem do you have? I'm not a linux 
> expert, but I know some old linux kernels, c libraries, and ext2 don't 
> have large file support. Perhaps an linux kernel upgrade will solve it.
> 
> You could also tried to create a file greater than 2 Gb from the unix
> shell:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=big_file_test bs=1024 count=2600000
> 
> If everything goes well, you will see a 2.5Gb file called 
> "big_file_test". On the contrary, you will see an error, which means 
> that your debian really doesn't support large files. Indeed you will 
> need to upgrade.
> 
> Regards,
> Josef
> 
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