<snip>

running a status in bconsole (even with -dnn) doesn't yield the  
output you suggest below. Likely a nuance with BSD.

>
> You can check if a particular client has large file support despite  
> what the
> configure output says by doing a:
>
>   status client=xxx
>
> in the console.  If you get a line such as:
>
>  Sizeof: off_t=8 size_t=4 debug=0 trace=0
>
> in the output, you have large file support.  If it says:
>
>  Sizeof: off_t=4 size_t=4 debug=0 trace=0
>
> you do not have large file support.
>
>
>>
>> On Ubuntu the value for "Large File Support:" was "yes".
>>
>> Furthermore, when I tried to re-configure on Mac OS X (being sure  
>> to run
>> configure a second time after a "make distclean" to clear any  
>> configure
>> cache), I then explicitly added this configure option:
>>
>> --enable-largefile
>>
>> But the end result was the same:
>>
>> Large file support:       no
>>
>> What should I do? I will most definitely need to back up and  
>> restore files
>> that are in excess of 2 GB in size.
>>
>> In Bacula, is Large File Support limited to certain file systems or
>> operating systems? The Mac I tried configuring for is one of the  
>> quite new
>> Intel iMacs (with Intel Core 2 Dueo "Merom" chip inside and  
>> apparently Merom
>> is a 64-bit chip and apparently Mac OS X 10.4.x "Tiger" has some  
>> 64-bit
>> capability but I'm not clear on exactly where the lines are drawn  
>> between
>> 32-bit and 64-bit in Tiger and on these new iMacs). Would CPU  
>> architecture
>> in any way affect the outcome of Bacula?
>>
>> Might I be in new territory if I am understanding this [1]  
>> document about
>> Large File System support correctly. Any further suggestions or  
>> comparisons
>> (Erich?) from people who are running Bacula on Mac OS X (Apple  
>> Intel and
>> PowerPC)?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -H
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_file_support
>>
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