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Article #178Re: Files > 4GB
From: Jeff Beadles
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 1990 17:03
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 1990 17:03
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In <1008@intelisc.isc.intel.com> cfj@isc.intel.com (Charlie Johnson) writes: >I'm curious if the companies who support Unix on large systems made the >necessary file system changes to allow individual files which are larger >than 4 gigabytes ?? You'd have to at least stretch the file size in the >inode beyond 32 bits and possibly mess around in the super block. Any >comments ?? Well, that would take one big disk :-) Unix files can not span physical disk partitions, at least on more common version of Unix. (Has anyone changed this?) This pretty well limits the file size more than the kernel internals. Then again, the largest file that I've seen in "real-life" is a 247mb kernel core dump :-) -Jeff -- Jeff Beadles jeff@onion.pdx.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!nosun!qiclab!onion!jeff From: jeff@onion.pdx.com (Jeff Beadles) Newsgroups: comp.unix.large Subject: Re: Files > 4GB Message-ID: <1990Nov9.170337.9484@onion.pdx.com> Date: 9 Nov 90 17:03:37 GMT References: <1008@intelisc.isc.intel.com> Reply-To: jeff@onion.pdx.com Distribution: usa Lines: 18