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* rebuilding inn with large-filesNigel Reed
`* Re: rebuilding inn with large-filesRuss Allbery
 `- Re: rebuilding inn with large-filesNigel Reed

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From: sysop@endofthelinebbs.com (Nigel Reed)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: rebuilding inn with large-files
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 14:46:29 -0600
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 by: Nigel Reed - Fri, 2 Feb 2024 20:46 UTC

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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From: eagle@eyrie.org (Russ Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: rebuilding inn with large-files
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2024 12:52:37 -0800
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 by: Russ Allbery - Fri, 2 Feb 2024 20:52 UTC

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.

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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: sysop@endofthelinebbs.com (Nigel Reed)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: rebuilding inn with large-files
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 15:09:28 -0600
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 by: Nigel Reed - Fri, 2 Feb 2024 21:09 UTC

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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