Re: Logfiles above 2G

Stipe Tolj <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.kannel.devel
Organization tolj.org system architecture
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Peter Christensen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The problem is not the kernel - 32-bit linux kernels have no problem 
> handling files larger than 2GB. But if the program is not compiled with 
> support for large files, it will receive an interrupt when it attempts 
> to write past the 2GB barrier. The solution is to compile with the 
> CFLAGS "-D_LARGE_FILES -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64". Actually this just makes 
> the program call open64() and lseek64() instead of open() and lseek().
> 
> Compile kannel in this way, and kannel can handle enormous logs without 
> crashing.
> 
> I thought that large file support was actually enabled by default now 
> (in the latest CVS) - I believe I saw a note about that some time ago.

yep, I can confirm that Alex has commited this as default compile behaviour in 
the autoconf macro configure.in in the CVS HEAD branch.

So, Andreas: what version? CVS being used?

Stipe

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