Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:54:50 +0200 From: Michael Beckmann <petzi@apfel.de> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations in FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991029005450.A2757@apfel.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910281455250.11610-100000@current1.whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 02:56:00PM -0700 References: <199910282143.OAA10601@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910281455250.11610-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 02:56:00PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Block devices are being removed from the system so the answer is > > no at the moment. If people have a need, we will probably introduce > > a block device overlay of some sort that would theoretically be mmapable. > > I think he means block device as in 'disk' not as in 'brwxrwxrwx" I was thinking of using a disk without a filesystem, for example for the CNFS storage method in INN. This requires that the device is mmapable. OK, so I know now that I can have pretty large files in the Terabyte range. Very nice. But I assume I cannot mmap anything like a 100 GB file ? Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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