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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 18:06:12 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robin Carey <bsc4093@dcs.napier.ac.uk>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   large file-sizes
Message-ID:  <Pine.SO4.4.01.10005191758080.27821-100000@artemis>

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Hi.

Am I right in thinking that FreeBSD/i386 can support large files (e.g.
tera-bytes) under FFS, but cannot read more than a 32-bit integer ?

If this is the case, has anyone considered, for example, a 64-bit
"virtual" integer interface to allow reading/writing files bigger than
what can be stored in a 32-bit integer ?

If it could be done, I for one, would find that facility very useful.

cheers....

PS I've been thinking about getting FBSD-4, but have heard that the
XFree86-4 that comes with it is not quite as stable/good as previous
releases. Should I wait for a later stable release along 4.x ?



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