To make matters worse, I downloaded 2.4.test5 to see how many more clients I can bench
press against this box, but
I get this when I do make bzImage ( I did do make menuconfig and make dep before
ofcourse)
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -march=i686 -fno-strict-aliasing -c -o tdfx_drv.o
tdfx_drv.c
tdfx_drv.c: In function `tdfx_lock':
tdfx_drv.c:626: structure has no member named `priority'
tdfx_drv.c:626: `DEF_PRIORITY' undeclared (first use in this function)
tdfx_drv.c:626: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
tdfx_drv.c:626: for each function it appears in.)
tdfx_drv.c: In function `tdfx_unlock':
tdfx_drv.c:672: structure has no member named `priority'
tdfx_drv.c:672: `DEF_PRIORITY' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[4]: *** [tdfx_drv.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm'
make[3]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm'
make[2]: *** [_subdir_drm] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/char'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_char] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers'
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
> I stand corrected. Looks like smbfs in 2.2.X uses a long long *
> (loff_t) so this should work.
>
> :-)
>
> Jeff
>
> "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
> >
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > > Dear Al, Linus, and Alan -- 2GB liit is probably something to look at
> > > > expanding in the future to support these huge SQL server database files.
> > >
> > > Indeed. Thats why there are 2.2 patches and 2.4test already zapped it. I think
> > > the limit is now about 1Tb for a file and hit due to block layer limits
> >
> > But not for everything. The 2.2.X VFS is limited to 2GB (since the fs
> > drivers were coded this way). I treat the off_t field as an unsigned
> > long so I'm at 4GB. 2.4.X does support big files, but this guy was
> > asking about "commercial" linux distributions he could get his hands on,
> > and most folks are still on 2.2.X. Some of the FS drivers treat this
> > field as a signed long in 2.2.X.
> >
> > I've known about the LargeFS patches for some time, but do they, for
> > example, let someone using ncpfs read and write a 4GB file on a NetWare
> > server? No, they don't because the read() and write() functions are
> > limited to 2GB in 2.2.X. This support is for EXT% variants and isn't
> > global across all the fs's. He has to get the data to the system
> > somehow, and it's a good bet he will be using a network to do it. Which
> > client can support copying of a 3.4GB file on Linux in the question--
> > SMBFS since it's an NT server -- I don't think so? Since the VFS is
> > limited to 2GB, I guess he can install large FS support, then stare at
> > the system and wonder how to get the file onto it.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Jeff
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