Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: Current CVS code needs more testing before production use

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 02:22, Matt Howard wrote:
> Speaking of testing,
> 
> I grabbed a 1.35.3 tarball and tried building everything under cygwin.  
> To my surprise, it looks like the hangups are only minor.  I was 
> planning on making my first test with file volumes.  (Cygwin doesn't 
> support large/>2GB files yet. =( )  I did some digging, and they 
> actually do have code that emulates the st devices in a linux-esque 
> style (passing commands through to the Windows SCSI tape interface), 
> but I've only found reports of people using that interface to run mt.
> 
> Anyway, just a heads-up.  I'm going to see what I can do to get a clean 
> build and test with it.  I don't currently have a SCSI tape attached to 
> a Windows machine, since it seemed useless up until now...

The current Win32 FD is built as a native Win32 app without need of
cygwin, and thus to the best of my knowledge supports files > 2GB.