From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 27 15: 6:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8B6E153B3 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:06:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10989; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:05:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:05:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199907272205.AAA10989@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does freeBSD or any related freeBSDs support file larger than 2GB on 32bit x86 platforms Cc: gdsntusr@globaldelsys.com Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message