Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:05:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: gdsntusr@globaldelsys.com Subject: Re: Does freeBSD or any related freeBSDs support file larger than 2GB on 32bit x86 platforms Message-ID: <199907272205.AAA10989@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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gdsntusr@globaldelsys.com wrote in list.freebsd-stable:
> [...] I was thinking of trying freeBSD with its SCO emulation
> support but I am uncertain whether freeBSD supports files larger than 2GB on
> 32bit x86 platforms.
It certainly does.
olli@dao-lin-hay:/tmp> touch foobar
olli@dao-lin-hay:/tmp> truncate `echo "2^43 - 1" | bc` foobar
olli@dao-lin-hay:/tmp> ls -l foobar
-rw-r--r-- 1 olli wheel 8796093022207 Jul 27 23:55 foobar
olli@dao-lin-hay:/tmp>
That's 8 Tbyte - 1. Impressive, isn't it? :)
By the way, off_t (the data type used for seeking in files and
other things) is 64 bits in FreeBSD, even on the 32bit i386
platform, so this is not limiting.
Regards
Oliver
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