From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 27 13:52: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 754411523E for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:51:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 119EBw-00037u-00; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:51:16 -0700 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:51:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: NT Workstation User Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does freeBSD or any related freeBSDs support file larger than 2GB on 32bit x86 platforms In-Reply-To: <000d01bed869$ddeec110$2bc809c0@HalbartAir.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, NT Workstation User wrote: > I am having a pecular problem trying to run SCO binaries under the iBCS > emulation in Linux. I figure the problem may be related to Linux lacking > the necesary functionality to support files larger than 2GB which this SCO > binary supports. 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. Anybody know the answer to this question. Also if ... First of all, don't CC to so many lists. No more than two. freebsd-question is the most relevant here. FreeBSD has supported >2GB files for so long, FreeBSD users have forgotten that some oses have a >2GB problem. Beware that some things don't like big files, like NFSv2, but that is NFSv2's problem, and is fixed in NFSv3. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message