[GRASS-user] Large File Support (LFS)

[Glynn Clements]

John Tate wrote:

> I complied and installed grass6.4 with large file support (ubuntu9.10 on a 
> 32bit machine). All went well with no errors. I ran my lidar script to test 
> it, and straight away failed on the 3.4Gb ascii file import with r.in.xyz to 
> get stats. I tried a 500Mb file and it was fine.
> 
> I found this: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Large_File_support
> 
> and guess that is I why I never had a problem on my 64bit machine.
> 
> What is the current state over this issue? Is there an easy fix (considering I 
> am still relatively new to linux), or do I have to wait for the completion of 
> the wish list on the wiki? What are the likely timescales? Is this an issue 
> with grass7 also?

In 7.0, --enable-largefile causes everything to be compiled with
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. Most uses of fseek/ftell have been replaced
with G_fseek() and G_ftell(), which accept and return an off_t, and
which use fseeko/ftello where available.

I have no idea whether widespread LFS will make it into 6.x.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>