Re: [ecasound] Ecasound File Size Limit?

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Subject: Re: [ecasound] Ecasound File Size Limit?
From: Kai Vehmanen (k_AT_eca.cx)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 09:40:04 EEST

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Len Moskowitz wrote:

> Does ecasound have a limit on the size of the files it can read, write or
> create? For example two-track recording for four hours at 24-bit /96 KHz
> will take up around 8.4 GB -- can ecasound handle that?

Yes, but you need to compile ecasound with configure options
--with-largefile (ecasound 2.1dev5 or newer). In addition you need to
have a relatively new glibc and kernel:

http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

... without largefile support, the limit is usually 2GB (also depends on
the filesystem type). 

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