Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:53:06 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File Size limit? Message-ID: <199801310723.RAA00987@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:45:09 MDT." <19980131004509.23016@mcs.net>
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> > 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)? That's correct. off_t must be signed (to allow seeking backwards), so the old limit was 2GB. I can vouch that at least basic operations (read, write, mmap() of a region) work on files > 2GB, as I used this functionality recently. (Analysis of an atmospheric simulation, if anyone cares.) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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