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  • Re: rebuilding inn with large-files

    From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to Nigel Reed on Fri Feb 2 12:52:37 2024
    Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> writes:

    So stupid me forgot to build inn with large file support and my history
    file is rapidly approaching 2G

    I have about 80GB of news articles downloaded so far.

    CanI rebuild inn with large file support and just rebuild the index or
    do I pretty much have to start over from sratch due to the different
    file formats?

    Are you really running on a 32-bit platform and not a 64-bit platform?
    Unless you're using really old hardware or you have been continuously
    upgrading the same system for a long time, this is fairly unlikely.

    The large file support only matters on 32-bit platforms.

    Unfortunately, if you *are* on a 32-bit platform and built without large
    file support, you'll generally need to rebuild all of history and
    overview. off_t is embedded in a lot of stuff.

    --
    Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

    Please post questions rather than mailing me directly.
    <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html> explains why.

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:1/5 to Russ Allbery on Fri Feb 2 15:09:28 2024
    On Fri, 02 Feb 2024 12:52:37 -0800
    Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> wrote:

    Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> writes:

    So stupid me forgot to build inn with large file support and my
    history file is rapidly approaching 2G

    I have about 80GB of news articles downloaded so far.

    CanI rebuild inn with large file support and just rebuild the index
    or do I pretty much have to start over from sratch due to the
    different file formats?

    Are you really running on a 32-bit platform and not a 64-bit platform?
    Unless you're using really old hardware or you have been continuously upgrading the same system for a long time, this is fairly unlikely.

    Oh ok. I missed that in the documentation then. I thought it was a bit
    strange in this day and age. :) Thank you for the quick response.

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 2 14:46:29 2024
    So stupid me forgot to build inn with large file support and my history
    file is rapidly approaching 2G

    I have about 80GB of news articles downloaded so far.

    CanI rebuild inn with large file support and just rebuild the index or
    do I pretty much have to start over from sratch due to the different
    file formats?



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    telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23

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