Re: [Dump-devel] dump and largefiles

[Andrea A. <an...@su...>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 05:12:59PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote:
> Dump see the filesystem only through the e2fs libraries. So Ted 
> comments apply.

Yes.

> Restore however uses directly the glibc functions so we must indeed
> use the LFS here. I don't know what is the best way to do that
> however (explicit support vs. implicit support)...

I prefer the implicit one (-D_...=64), it has a simpler interface. Performance
doesn't really matter. gcc breaks more easily with the long long but then fix
gcc if it breaks since we rely on it everywhere ;)

Andrea