Re: [Help-gnunet] Re: gnunetd suddenly very unstable

[Christian Drechsler]

hi there!

i haven't written for a long time for i didn't have time; but here's my
answer now. btw, the limitation was not set in gnunet.conf; it's even more
than 4GB (which isn't useful, i know). will that internal limitation be
taken out in the near future? it should be if people are trying to
share/download videos.

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Darren West wrote:

> Two things are necessary to get around the 2gig filesize limitation.
> First, update your kernel to  a 2.4 kernel (the latest stable 2.4.19 on
> kernel.org). also update to a more recent glibc.  You should be able to
> continue using ext2, although if you switch to ext3 or reiser, you get
> the benefits of journaling also. Ext3 is also backward compatible with
> (can be mounted as) ext2, which is handy.

there is a third point, and that's the critical one, i guess: the software
itself has to be compiled with LFS (large file support). as far as i read
the docs, it should be enough to compile it with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE. i don't exactly understand what the latter one does,
but i read that one should use it, too. ;-)

it seems that wasn't done for gdb under rh 7.3. i didn't have the time yet
to recompile it, but i probably will in the near future.

regards, zottel