From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 10:18:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C398D37B77E for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 10:18:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4JHppT13657; Fri, 19 May 2000 10:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:51:51 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Robin Carey Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large file-sizes Message-ID: <20000519105151.A13502@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from bsc4093@dcs.napier.ac.uk on Fri, May 19, 2000 at 06:06:12PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Robin Carey [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