From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 31 12:18:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28587 for current-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 12:18:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28521; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 12:18:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00208; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:17:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199801312017.PAA00208@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: File Size limit? In-Reply-To: <19980131111800.21286@mcs.net> from Karl Denninger at "Jan 31, 98 11:18:00 am" To: karl@mcs.net (Karl Denninger) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:17:53 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe current" 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.