%% Dan Nelson <dnelson@stripped> writes:
dn> That is because although Linux binaries can access files over 2gb,
dn> they do not do so by default. Apache was probably not compiled
dn> with the required defines (-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
dn> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64), so that's why it stops at 2gb even though
dn> both the kernel and filesystem most likely do support larger
dn> files.
Just to point out this (needing extra compile flags to get large file
support) is not unique to Linux. Most OSs require these kinds of flags;
Solaris for example also requires special flags to get LFS.
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