Re: 2 GB limit with ext2
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:26:41AM +0100, Andreas Leitner wrote: On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 20:33, Emil Pedersen wrote: Oh, and testing would probably do just fine. For my normal work machine I use a testing enhanced potato. apt-0.5.4 let you keep one default release but gives you the abbility to hand pick things from testing. Very neat. I also use it (apt-get source/dpkg-buildpackage) [snip] I have heard that apt supports this now for a while, but never found out how to set it up and how to use it. Does anybody have any pointers? In woody: $ man 5 apt_preferences -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
Re: 2 GB limit with ext2
On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 10:45, Osamu Aoki wrote: In woody: $ man 5 apt_preferences Ahhh, thanks! Andreas
2 GB limit with ext2
Anywaa around it? I'm trying to do a tarball as a backup for my system but after 2 GB process stops to an error. And yes, I do have over 4 GB free space where I'm trying to make tarball. Antti Antti My PGP public key: http://linux.tola.org/~chicken/antti_pgp.txt -- Sex, rags and rock'n roll! --
Re: 2 GB limit with ext2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Which release, which kernel? I can sucesfully make 2g tars using a 2.4 kernel on woody using either a ext2 or XFS filesystem. There are quite a few tools in woody that don't support 2g files but most of the critical ones do and for those that don't it is fairly straight forward to rebuild the .deb with large file support enabled. Antti Tolamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anywaa around it? I'm trying to do a tarball as a backup for my system but after 2 GB process stops to an error. And yes, I do have over 4 GB free space where I'm trying to make tarball. Antti Antti My PGP public key: http://linux.tola.org/~chicken/antti_pgp.txt -- Sex, rags and rock'n roll! -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- - -rupa -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6, an Emacs/PGP interface iQEVAwUBO/VQz3HDM4ucEopdAQHe0ggAjwn3ixBPFq+PPwN7NLNUAuiLRnC5OXbi hvemoIuOSevG19jJW9jEARCMoC7Yv4UaEDnraMAB28qOtBMDpCednlIH+sJrz2vg kRQ1i9E9n2eu2hh1v6emqmrST1F7uNn7rLHLLqm7rTYaXIXI+P4nCtyjrWx2vppS aObrnR3AiFJoR9kRjytmOHOjckpYe3Hluy8qqm+ScgZjP95lxE9tCuw3SltBlU+6 Fppch15S/qEqvRZ1BiDjGALFDdtiqo+gtqbKibXGiEoesKb0be0cU7/DsijQIk9v IoKCcLk5lwRszUFTg0zkx98ZkVrBLPTG15Ha6kLAcZ+HmiC/0kyVnw== =n0KE -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: 2 GB limit with ext2
Antti == Antti Tolamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Antti Anywaa around it? I'm trying to do a tarball as a backup for my Antti system but after 2 GB process stops to an error. And yes, I do Antti have over 4 GB free space where I'm trying to make tarball. XFS should be able to handle large files. You can download the patches and utilities from SGI's website. -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://users.pandora.be/guy.geens/ `I want quality, not quantity. But I want lots of it!'
Re: 2 GB limit with ext2
Rupa Schomaker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Which release, which kernel? I forgot to mention that. Potato 2.2.19r4 Antti
Re: 2 GB limit with ext2
Rupa Schomaker wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Which release, which kernel? I can sucesfully make 2g tars using a 2.4 kernel on woody using either a ext2 or XFS filesystem. There are quite a few tools in woody that don't support 2g files but most of the critical ones do and for those that don't it is fairly straight forward to rebuild the .deb with large file support enabled. Antti Tolamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anywaa around it? I'm trying to do a tarball as a backup for my system but after 2 GB process stops to an error. And yes, I do have over 4 GB free space where I'm trying to make tarball. Hi Antti. I just struggled my way to through to get LFS (large file support) in a potato system installed about six months ago. What I had to do was to compile new kernel (2.4.9 + aacraid patch) since I upgraded from (a perfectly stable) 2.2.19, you shouldn't have to do this if you're already using 2.4.x. Installed this just to find out that I still could not create large files, the struggle began. In the end it turned out to be really simple; You can not use 'libc6' from stable (potato), but have to go with testing/unstable. (I got the impression that one could also recompile libc against the 2.4 headers, but I just downloaded 'libc6' and 'libc6-dev' from testing.) They will likely conflict with some installed packages you may have (I had to adjust locale, libstdc++ and a few -dev packages), but should be solvable by installing/removing/reinstalling the troublesome packages manually. Just take it easy and don't make any drastic changes. Once libc6 and depending packages were setup properly, I used dd to create a file of 3.5G just to try. Worked liked a charm. Hopefully I don't have to reboot for at least another 150-days period... Good luck, Emil
Re: 2 GB limit with ext2
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Emil Pedersen wrote: I just struggled my way to through to get LFS (large file support) in a potato system installed about six months ago. What I had to do was to compile new kernel (2.4.9 + aacraid patch) since I upgraded from (a perfectly stable) 2.2.19, you shouldn't have to do this if you're already using 2.4.x. Installed this just to find out that I still could not create large files, the struggle began. In the end it turned out to be really simple; You can not use 'libc6' from stable (potato), but have to go with testing/unstable. (I got the impression that one could also recompile libc against the 2.4 headers, but I just downloaded 'libc6' and 'libc6-dev' from testing.) They will likely conflict with some installed packages you may have (I had to adjust locale, libstdc++ and a few -dev packages), but should be solvable by installing/removing/reinstalling the troublesome packages manually. Just take it easy and don't make any drastic changes. Once libc6 and depending packages were setup properly, I used dd to create a file of 3.5G just to try. Worked liked a charm. Hopefully I don't have to reboot for at least another 150-days period... Just to be sure that I understand, besides having the libc6 and other packages from testing/unstable, one _must_ also be using a 2.4.x kernel. Is that correct? Do you also have to turn on some large file option when configuring the kernel or is it the default? Any idea if you really need packages from unstable, or is testing (woody) good enough? ...RickM...
Re: 2 GB limit with ext2
Rick Macdonald wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Emil Pedersen wrote: I just struggled my way to through to get LFS (large file support) in a potato system installed about six months ago. What I had to do was to compile new kernel (2.4.9 + aacraid patch) since I upgraded from (a perfectly stable) 2.2.19, you shouldn't have to do this if you're already using 2.4.x. Installed this just to find out that I still could not create large files, the struggle began. In the end it turned out to be really simple; You can not use 'libc6' from stable (potato), but have to go with testing/unstable. (I got the impression that one could also recompile libc against the 2.4 headers, but I just downloaded 'libc6' and 'libc6-dev' from testing.) They will likely conflict with some installed packages you may have (I had to adjust locale, libstdc++ and a few -dev packages), but should be solvable by installing/removing/reinstalling the troublesome packages manually. Just take it easy and don't make any drastic changes. Once libc6 and depending packages were setup properly, I used dd to create a file of 3.5G just to try. Worked liked a charm. Hopefully I don't have to reboot for at least another 150-days period... Just to be sure that I understand, besides having the libc6 and other packages from testing/unstable, one _must_ also be using a 2.4.x kernel. Is that correct? Do you also have to turn on some large file option when configuring the kernel or is it the default? I _think_ you could find a patch against the 2.2.x series, but I'm not sure. It's just the impression I got surfing around to gather some useful info before I started. I just thought the simplest way would be to upgrade to a 2.4 kernel. The 2.4 kernels (after 2.4.0test7 if I understood correctly) have this support by default. I actually looked more than once for some option to tweak but couldn't find any. It just worked while libc6 was in place. Any idea if you really need packages from unstable, or is testing (woody) good enough? I used 'libc6_2.2.4-5_i386.deb' which I'm pretty sure came from testing (I don't have unstable in my source.list). Besides that I think it depends on what packages are on your machine. My was a quite striped server, thus there was just a few complaints when installing libc6-dev. I don't surely remember whatever 'locale' complained about 'libc6' or 'libc6-dev' but besides that (if any) I didn't get any complaints against libc6, only the -dev part. // Emil
Re: 2 GB limit with ext2
[ ... ] I missed some info... Here's the source to some of my assumptions/statements: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html Oh, and testing would probably do just fine. For my normal work machine I use a testing enhanced potato. apt-0.5.4 let you keep one default release but gives you the abbility to hand pick things from testing. Very neat. I also use it (apt-get source/dpkg-buildpackage) to get testing packages compiled to my system, that if installed the standard way would have dragged in to much other new packages. It doesn't always work, but most of the times. Well worth a try... // Emil
Re: 2 GB limit with ext2
On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 20:33, Emil Pedersen wrote: Oh, and testing would probably do just fine. For my normal work machine I use a testing enhanced potato. apt-0.5.4 let you keep one default release but gives you the abbility to hand pick things from testing. Very neat. I also use it (apt-get source/dpkg-buildpackage) to get testing packages compiled to my system, that if installed the standard way would have dragged in to much other new packages. It doesn't always work, but most of the times. Well worth a try... I have heard that apt supports this now for a while, but never found out how to set it up and how to use it. Does anybody have any pointers? tia, Andreas
