Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:17:53 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: karl@mcs.net (Karl Denninger) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File Size limit? Message-ID: <199801312017.PAA00208@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <19980131111800.21286@mcs.net> from Karl Denninger at "Jan 31, 98 11:18:00 am"
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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.
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