Hi, the pure-ftpd ebuild lacks support for largefiles which is kind of annoying when rebuilding it and noticing that no files show up in it.
i might also point out that the configure option says 'may be slower' when lfs support is turned on ... can you verify/deny this claim ?
Yes I'm aware that it says that, but no I haven't noticed any performance decrease. On the other hand my server doesn't have a high load. But since it makes the ftp server useless if you like me have a lot of files >2gb it would be nice if it was turned on by default.
done then http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-ftp/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd-1.0.12-r1.ebuild?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
from http://www.pureftpd.org/README --with-largefile: support downloading of files larger than 2 gigabytes on 32-bit architectures. Transfering so huge files through FTP is a strange idea. And your filesystem has to support it. Your kernel and your libc as well. And of course, the FTP client has to be safe against large files, too. And when this feature is enabled, downloads can be a bit slower (or more cpu-intensive) than without it, due to a limitation of actual Linux kernels. To summarize: don't enable this for fun, just if you are really planning to download files over 2 gigabytes. We should offer a *common* set of feature per ebuild .. IMO, adding the --largefile option is not the right way. Users with different needs could always use EXTRA_ECONF since the ebuild uses econf(). That EXTRA_ECONF stuff has been though for this purpose. `EXTRA_ECONF="--with-largefile" emerge pure-ftpd` should work just fine. I'm updating the pure-ftpd ebuild to 1.0.13a and I'm going to change that --largefile option Maurizio
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