On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 03:42, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > >On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 09:21:07AM -0500, Greg Copeland wrote: > > > >>I'm actually amazed that postgres isn't already using large file > >>support. Especially for tools like dump. > >> > > > >Except it would only cause confusion if you ran such a program on a > >system that didn't itself have largefile support. Better to make the > >admin turn all these things on on purpose, until everyone is running > >64 bit systems everywhere. > > > >A > > > Ah yes ... extremely good point - I had not considered that. > > I am pretty sure all reasonably current (kernel >= 2.4) Linux distros > support largefile out of the box - so it should be safe for them. > > Other operating systems where 64 bit file access can be disabled or > unconfigured require more care - possibly (sigh) 2 binary RPMS with a > distinctive 32 and 64 bit label ...(I think the "big O" does this for > Solaris). Then, of course, there are systems where Largefiles support is a filesystem by filesystem (read mountpoint by mountpoint) option (E.G. OpenUNIX).
I think this is going to be a pandoras box. -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
