Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:51:51 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Robin Carey <bsc4093@dcs.napier.ac.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large file-sizes Message-ID: <20000519105151.A13502@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SO4.4.01.10005191758080.27821-100000@artemis>; from bsc4093@dcs.napier.ac.uk on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 06:06:12PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.SO4.4.01.10005191758080.27821-100000@artemis>
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* Robin Carey <bsc4093@dcs.napier.ac.uk> [000519 10:42] wrote: > 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 ? FFS is 64 bit, off_t is a 64 bit quantity. > 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 ? off_t :) > 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 ? FreeBSD 4.0 ships with XFree 3.3.6. -- -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
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