Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 17:23:53 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes? Message-ID: <200103060023.f260Nrd24686@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Mar 2001 18:24:24 %2B0100." <13458.983813064@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <13458.983813064@verdi.nethelp.no>
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In message <13458.983813064@verdi.nethelp.no> sthaug@nethelp.no writes: : What I can't understand is the reference to missing support for large : file sizes - as far as I know, that's one of FreeBSD's strengths! Anybody : care to guess what they mean here? It is crap. FreeBSD's API supports up to 2^63 byte files, but the kernel internal structures limit this to 2^41, or 2TB. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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