From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 11:57:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8D5B37B66E for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:56:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9BIuXF27744; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:56:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:56:33 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: nix bar Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large file support Message-ID: <20001011115633.L272@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from nix_bar@hotmail.com on Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 03:14:53PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * nix bar [001011 07:27] wrote: > Hi, > > I've been told that FreeBSD is able to support files larger than 2 GB. So, > is it true and is this avalaible with the normal distribution or do I need > to download a patch ? What's so large about a two gigabyte file? :) FreeBSD has supported files greater than 2gig for at least 4 years (probably closer to 10). -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message