From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 27 14:58:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (penelope.skunk.org [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069BB14EBF for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:58:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA57715; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:34:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:34:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Rosengart To: NT Workstation User Cc: Joe Gleason , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does freeBSD or any related freeBSDs support file larger than 2GB on 32bit x86 platforms In-Reply-To: <001901bed86d$e7b4c010$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: > Ummm, I'm not sure whether tar files count. See the 2GB file limit under > Linux comes from the maximum value of a 32bit signed integer. Because the > file system calls use those 32bit integers a file's size is limited to 2GB, > at least if you want random access. tar files generally aren't accessed in > a random access fashion, instead the file is treated as a byte stream. You're thinking of dump. Tar goes through the filesystem interface just like any other program -- that's why it's so portable, and also why it doesn't preserve holes in files. BTW, trim your lists, you shouldn't mail that many lists at once. -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message