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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:17:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        karl@mcs.net (Karl Denninger)
Cc:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: File Size limit?
Message-ID:  <199801312017.PAA00208@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980131111800.21286@mcs.net> from Karl Denninger at "Jan 31, 98 11:18:00 am"

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Karl Denninger said:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 1998 at 05:15:42AM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
> > Karl Denninger said:
> > > 
> > > What is it under FreeBSD?
> > > 
> > > I see that _BSD_OFF_T_, which is the parent of the LSEEK argument, is
> > > defined as "long long".  Is this a 64-bit quantity, implying that we have
> > > file sizes allowed beyond 2GB (or 4GB)?
> > > 
> > Yes!
> > 
> > -- 
> > John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
> > dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
> > jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.
> 
> Good, because I am dangerously close to 2G files in my Rdbms right now :-)
> 
I suspect that you won't have any problems until at least 32GB.  Theoretically,
we can support .5TB, but it hasn't been adequately tested, and I believe
that there are some known overflow problems before there.

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.



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