From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 20 8: 8:39 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 7C92137B6FB for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 08:08:36 -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 QAA11489; Sat, 20 May 2000 16:07:34 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 16:06:24 +0100 (BST) From: Robin Carey X-Sender: bsc4093@artemis To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large file-sizes In-Reply-To: <20000519105151.A13502@fw.wintelcom.net> 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 On Fri, 19 May 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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 :) OK - call me stupid :) But how does FreeBSD/i386 support 64-bit off_t's (on a 32-bit microprocessor) ? To clarify this: You're telling me I can read/write/lseek files bigger than 4-gigs ? cheers ... > > -- > -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