From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 28 15:28:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.apfel.de (mail.apfel.de [195.252.143.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D0F15360 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:28:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petzi@mail.apfel.de) Received: (from petzi@localhost) by mail.apfel.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA02830; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:54:50 +0200 (MEST) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:54:50 +0200 From: Michael Beckmann To: Julian Elischer Cc: Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations in FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991029005450.A2757@apfel.de> References: <199910282143.OAA10601@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Julian Elischer on Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 02:56:00PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 02:56:00PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Block devices are being removed from the system so the answer is > > no at the moment. If people have a need, we will probably introduce > > a block device overlay of some sort that would theoretically be mmapable. > > I think he means block device as in 'disk' not as in 'brwxrwxrwx" I was thinking of using a disk without a filesystem, for example for the CNFS storage method in INN. This requires that the device is mmapable. OK, so I know now that I can have pretty large files in the Terabyte range. Very nice. But I assume I cannot mmap anything like a 100 GB file ? Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message