From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 24 04:50:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA17844 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 04:50:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA17839 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 04:50:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id XAA07310 for hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:20:13 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702241250.XAA07310@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Large File standards? To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:20:12 +1030 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk While people are beating on the filesystem and the like, this may be worth looking at : http://www.sas.com/standards/large.file/ It appears to be a 'standard' for support for files > 2^32 bytes in size. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[