From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 10: 8:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from poseidon.dcs.napier.ac.uk (poseidon.dcs.napier.ac.uk [146.176.161.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A3137BEC0 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 10:08:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsc4093@dcs.napier.ac.uk) Received: from artemis (artemis [146.176.161.5]) by poseidon.dcs.napier.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA09051 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 18:07:23 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:06:12 +0100 (BST) From: Robin Carey X-Sender: bsc4093@artemis To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: large file-sizes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message