On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 05:15 AM, Leyne, Sean wrote:

> Alexander,
>
>> Does it mean I must to keep myself from joining large splitted
>> database into one file on Red Hat 6.2 just now?
>
> Yes!
>
> In fact with Red Hat 6.2, you won't *ever* be able to use the 64bit I/O
> support.
>
> Both the OS and the filing systems don't support for large files.
>
>
> (I think the minimum version for 64bit support is Red Hat 7.1 and
> Mandrake 8.0, don't know about the other flavors)

For a detailed information on which OS versions and file systems are
needed for Linux to use the 64 bit I/O functionality look at the webpage
http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html.

-John