Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 07:01:28 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: gdsntusr@globaldelsys.com, Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Subject: Re: Does freeBSD or any related freeBSDs support file larger than 2GB on 32bit x86 platforms Message-ID: <19990728210129.5795.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <199907272205.AAA10989@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> of Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:05:07 %2B0200 References: <199907272205.AAA10989@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Oliver Fromme writes:
> olli@dao-lin-hay:/tmp> touch foobar
> olli@dao-lin-hay:/tmp> truncate `echo "2^43 - 1" | bc` foobar
> olli@dao-lin-hay:/tmp> ls -l foobar
> -rw-r--r-- 1 olli wheel 8796093022207 Jul 27 23:55 foobar
> olli@dao-lin-hay:/tmp>
>
> That's 8 Tbyte - 1. Impressive, isn't it? :)
Depends on your concept of impressive. Look at this minor
variation:
$ df .
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
mfs:36 63503 14 58409 0% /tmp
$ touch foo
$ truncate `echo "2^43 - 1" | bc` foo
$ ls -ls foo
32 -rw-rw---- 1 gjb wheel 8796093022207 Jul 29 06:49 foo
$ df .
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
mfs:36 63503 46 58377 0% /tmp
I suppose you could claim that fitting a Terabyte+ size file
into a 64 Mbyte file system was impressive. But since the file
really only uses 32 Kbytes (as shown by the ls(1) and df(1)
output), I'd call it a bit of a scam ...
--
Greg Black -- <gjb@acm.org>
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