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Date:      Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:11:57 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: large file support
Message-ID:  <20050818151157.GA85443@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <053201c5a3f9$5546ba90$0a02a8c0@MEGADROID>
References:  <053201c5a3f9$5546ba90$0a02a8c0@MEGADROID>

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On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:32:49PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Uhm, quite urgent, but does BSD support < 4GB files on i386?

You mean >4GB, not <4GB, and the answer is "yes, it has supported them
on UFS for many years".

> We have a 4.3GB MySQL Table (i.e. one file), mysql reads from it, server =
halts, we tried to cp / mv it, server halts...=20
>=20
> For a test, I did a quick dd to generate a 6.4GB file, server halted....=
=20
>=20
> What's the solution here????  =20

Perhaps something is wrong with your hardware, or you are using some
kind of non-default filesystem (i.e. not UFS).

Kris

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