[gdal-dev] Ubuntu, gdal & ecw's >2gb on IA32

[Richard Greenwood]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Tim Bowden <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:09 -0600, Richard Greenwood wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Tim Bowden <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>> > *me scratches head* and not for the first time.  I wasn't expecting that
>> > to make a difference.  No idea what to make of it.  Just to make sure
>> > I've got it right, the samba share was being served from a mac was it?
>> > And you were running gdalinfo from ubuntu 8.04?  or the other way
>> > around?
>>
>> I'm running 32 bit Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. I had a Windows XP NTFS drive
>> mounted via Samba and gdalinfo was fine. Copied the same file to the
>> local ext3 partition and got the error. I'll be trying the same file
>> on a Slackware server in the next couple days.
>
> Ah, perhaps it's worth trying on a non ext3 filesystem.  Not sure how it
> would make a difference, but I've got no other ideas.

FWIW - I copied my 4GB ecw to a Slackware Linux server and gdalinfo
does not report any errors. I'm using the same version of FW Tools
(2.0.6) on both my Ubuntu 8.04 laptop and the Slackware server.

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