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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


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