Re: [Linux-decnet-user] fal problems

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:09:11PM +0100, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:21:35AM +0100, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> > I'm not sure about that. there's nothing in the DAP spec that implies a 2 gig
> > file limit AFAICT. looking at the libdap source code I have used longs where
> > loff_t would probably be more appropriate and I suspect it may not be built
> > with __LARGEFILE64.
> >      
> 
> Adding
> 
> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> 
> to CDEFS in Makefile.common allows dncopy to handle files > 2gig. I've only
> tested this Linux->Linux at the moment
> 

Right, I've tried this and managed to backup a whole RZ1CB-BS (8380080 blocks
or about 4gig) disk from Alpha VMS 7.2 to a 4.6Gig saveset on a Linux box
without any trouble*, so that seems to be all that's needed.

I'll do another release soon with just this change in so that it's generally
available (and gets into the Debian archive).

patrick

* It took 35 minutes if anyone's interested!