largefiles/rawdisk in recent linux.

[Marco d'Itri]

On Aug 05, Dan Merillat <harik at chaos.ao.net> wrote:

 >Have any of the various largefile/mmap block device patches made it
 >into the linux kernel?   I'm getting ready to turnup a skycache feed
Largefiles support is merged in the 2.4 tree, but I'm not sure it's
ready for production (YMMV).
To use largefiles you need an updated glibc (2.2.x, IIRC) compiled with
2.4 (or patched 2.2) kernel headers.
I never read anything about block devices mmaping, do you know if such a
patch does exist?

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ciao,
Marco