Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:48:53 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Overcoming 2GB limit in linux Message-ID: <380722B5.CC3E339E@scc.nl> References: <199910151224.KAA46358@thomson.iqm.unicamp.br>
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Fabio Cesar Gozzo wrote: > This may be a Linux emulation FAQ, but I didn't find an answer > by searching the mailling list. > I'm running a Linux program under -stable and it usually > try to create a file bigger than 2 GB, but then it stops > with a "writing failure" message when the file reachs 2GB. > I know this is a Linux limitation, but > is there a way to overcome this 2GB file size limit under the > Linux emulation ? > I also have the source code for this program, but porting > to FreeBSD is "no way" at the moment. There's nothing at first sight that adds such a limit to the linuxulator. You may want to check the sources if lseek is used or not. If so, try llseek instead. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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