Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:12:04 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: large files? Message-ID: <20010105131204.Q890@iib005.iib.unsam.edu.ar>
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Dear all: I'm currently having problems with my linux boxes since I cannot deal with large (> 2Gb) files. I am evaluating other OSes to replace Linux mainly because I heard that *BSD does not have this limitation on file size. The situation in Linux looks complicated to me (a biologist that turned to bioinformatics) because the issue appears to involve both the kernel and the kind of filesystem used. Also, you still have to recompile your apps to enable the support for large files. How is this managed in *BSD? My main needs are being able to: cp, mv, compress/uncompress, cat, grep large files (I may be missing something here, but you get the idea) Also I need to be able to run more specific software on these files, but this is not *BSD related (although some other bioinformatician on the list can help me here). I have two boxes: i) a mail, web, ftp and database server and ii) a workstation For ease of maintainance I prefer to have the same OS on both machines, although I still find linux to be a better option as a workstation since there are many software packages for which there is no source available (just binaries). Please fell free to prove me wrong. I am just starting to know the BSDs .. BTW how is the performance of linux binaries running on *BSD in emulation mode? Are there any benchmark results or similar tests online? Do 100% of linux binaries run emulated or is the percentage lower? Thanks in advance for your help, Fernan -- # --------------------------------------------------------- # # _ # # Fernan Aguero | / \ # # Bioinformatics | ASCII \ / against # # IIB-UNSAM | ribbon / HTML # # fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar | campaign / \ email # # ICQ 100325972 | / \ # # # # --------------------------------------------------------- # To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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