Alexander et al,

Unfortunately, the current *nix builds DO NOT support 64bit file I/O.

I know that John B. is back from his mini-vacation today and have CC'd
him and Mark O. on this message to see what can be done to provide a
beta build with the support enabled.


Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander V.Nevsky [mailto:alex_vnru@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:59 AM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ib-support] Re: --* Please Help*--- Database corruption and
> cannot backup & restore
>
>
> --- In ib-support@y..., "David K. Trudgett" <dkt@r...> wrote:
> > Perhaps I should have clarified that I meant _successful_ experience
> > ;-)
> >
> > What version of the Linux kernel and which distribution are you
> using?
> >
>
> Hi, David. Can't boast with successful experience.
>
> OS - Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)
> Kernel 2.4.3-12 on an i686
> glibc 2.2.2-10
> Filesystem - ext2
> LI-T1.0.0.368 Firebird Beta2
>
> General large files are successfully created and appended, but
> restore database of expected size about 2.5Gb failed on 2Gb limit.
> If I remember right, it was said here some days ago that large
> files support is not included into Linux builds yet and will be added
> in a few days. But I can be mistaken.