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Re: Support for largefiles >2GB

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2006-06-19 16:33:43 CEST

On 6/19/06, Dagobert Michelsen <dam@baltic-online.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently maintaining a repository for a client and there is
> the need to store single files larger than 2 GB in the repository.
> Doing a simple 'svn status' on a file not even currently in the
> repository leads to the error
> svn: Can't read directory '.': Partial results are valid but
> processing is incomplete
> A trace on 'svn status' leads to an 'lstat' returning errno #79
> EOVERFLOW.
> Subversion is hosted on Solaris 10 Sparc. There is a transitional
> largefile API in Solaris [lf64(5)], however I don't know how to
> enable it on subversion. Maybe someone has a hint for me?
>
> Browsing the mailing list archive led me only to postings about
> commit size restrictions, which might apply at a later point.

What version of APR are you using? If you're using APR 1.0 or newer
it should automatically pick up large file support on your system. If
you're using a 0.9 version of APR it's far less likely to work
reliably.

-garrett

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