Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 05:39:13 -0800 From: gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: large files Message-ID: <4727.821108353@westhill.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jan 1996 12:15:47 %2B0100." <199601081115.MAA16136@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Wolfram Schneider wrote in message ID <199601081115.MAA16136@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>: > > On FreeBSD 2.0 I can mmap only file less than 2GB (SSIZE_MAX alias > INT_MAX). On FreeBSD 2.1 I can't write(2) to files larger than 2GB > (and don't test if mmap works with 2GB files). > > Why? Because of various restrictions in the kernel, files >>2Gb aren't supported anyhow. I believe John Dyson has commited fixes to -current to increase this limit. (AFAIR, the file offset is kept as a signed int in the kernel, and the negative offsets are used to keep file metadata. If you look through the mail list archives, you may find discussions on this - I know that when we first fixed the code to support 1Tb FS's there was a discussion about file sizes). Writing to a file past the 2Gb point would have rather unpredictable results as you could probably understand, which is why the mmap() restriction is there also. Yours Garyhome | help
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