From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 27 13: 6: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from tasam.com (tasam.com [206.161.83.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8300F153D1; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:05:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd.list@bug.tasam.com) Received: from bug (209-122-238-225.s225.tnt2.lnh.md.dialup.rcn.com [209.122.238.225]) by tasam.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA11004; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:05:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <009a01bed86b$601baf80$0286860a@tasam.com> From: "Joe Gleason" To: "NT Workstation User" , , , , , References: <000d01bed869$ddeec110$2bc809c0@HalbartAir.com> Subject: Re: Does freeBSD or any related freeBSDs support file larger than 2GB on 32bit x86 platforms Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:05:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am uncertain about the emulation issues, but I know my backup tar files often exceed 4GB on x86 systems. I have done this with versions FreeBSD 2.2.2-3.2. I have never heard it mentioned before, so I assume it works on all versions. Probably a UFS thing. Joe Gleason Tasam > 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 > only a peticular version supports it, let me know so I can get the correct > version. The program that I am trying to get to run under freeBSD or Linux > is the Microfocus cobol runtime. Everything else in that COBOL development > package works except the actual runtime, which just happens to support large > files (> 2GB) for the COBOL databases. This is why I fugure its dying under > Linux, so does freeBSD on 32bit x86 platforms support files > 2GB? > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message