From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 18:34: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-57-209.knology.net [24.214.57.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54C2537B40A for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f951Xxw46904; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:33:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200110050133.f951Xxw46904@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: stanb@panix.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Free BSD Questions list) From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Largefile (> 2G) support? In-reply-to: Message from of "Thu, 04 Oct 2001 09:18:31 EDT." <200110041318.f94DIWS20713@panix2.panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 20:33:59 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG stanb@panix.com writes: > If I install the current STABLE distribution on a new machien, what do I > need to to to enable largefile support on it? All you need is a filesystem large enough to hold the file and something to create said file. FreeBSD has had this ability since the begining. Years ago in a former life I routinely pushed 4G to 12G tape images around in FreeBSD, each as a single file ready to be pushed raw on to tape as needed. Essentially the same thing as CD-ROM images but was tape. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message