From: jes@machine.engr.sgi.com (John E. Schimmel)
To: galibert@pobox.com (Olivier Galibert)
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: help offered
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:57:10 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199811251957.LAA24028@machine.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19981125204900.A4692@loria.fr> from "Olivier Galibert" at Nov 25, 98 08:49:00 pm
>
> The limit on x86 is 2GB. To be fair, said terabyte files and
> filesystems are connected to systems with a 64bits architecture.
> Afaik, linux on alpha handles terabytes files.
>
> OG.
>
We support >2GB on 32 bit systems, and added lseek64() and friends
before we had 64 bit size_t/off_t.
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From: jes@machine.engr.sgi.com (John E. Schimmel)
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: help offered
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:57:10 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199811251957.LAA24028@machine.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19981125195710.1gaNWUXLOLKC-6auP5feVjUjx6NIW1Vw9vTBONBX0iA@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19981125204900.A4692@loria.fr> from "Olivier Galibert" at Nov 25, 98 08:49:00 pm
>
> The limit on x86 is 2GB. To be fair, said terabyte files and
> filesystems are connected to systems with a 64bits architecture.
> Afaik, linux on alpha handles terabytes files.
>
> OG.
>
We support >2GB on 32 bit systems, and added lseek64() and friends
before we had 64 bit size_t/off_t.
--------------------------------------------------------------
John E. Schimmel Email: jes@sgi.com
KD6MNW Voice: (650)933-4116
Silicon Graphics Inc. Fax: (650)933-0513
http://reality.sgi.com/jes Cellular: (209)631-0896
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-11-25 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-24 12:27 help offered Torbjörn Gannholm
1998-11-24 20:33 ` Ariel Faigon
1998-11-25 19:49 ` Olivier Galibert
1998-11-25 19:57 ` John E. Schimmel [this message]
1998-11-25 19:57 ` John E. Schimmel
1998-11-25 20:11 ` Jeffrey Watts
1998-11-25 20:43 ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 20:37 ` Ariel Faigon
1998-11-25 20:37 ` Ariel Faigon
1998-11-25 20:51 ` pjlahaie
1998-11-25 21:18 ` William J. Earl
1998-11-25 21:18 ` William J. Earl
1998-11-25 21:24 ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 21:24 ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 21:38 ` pjlahaie
1998-11-25 21:57 ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 21:57 ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 22:09 ` pjlahaie
1998-11-25 22:57 ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 22:57 ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 22:08 ` William J. Earl
1998-11-25 22:08 ` William J. Earl
1998-11-25 22:13 ` Alex Kozlov
1998-11-25 22:15 ` pjlahaie
1998-11-25 22:25 ` William J. Earl
1998-11-25 22:25 ` William J. Earl
1998-11-25 21:46 ` Alan Cox
1998-11-25 21:04 ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 21:04 ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-26 12:28 ` ralf
[not found] ` <19981126085407.A2201@uni-koblenz.de>
1998-11-27 22:59 ` Olivier Galibert
1998-11-28 2:45 ` ralf
1998-11-26 22:17 ` Miguel de Icaza
1998-11-25 20:56 ` Greg Chesson
1998-11-25 21:12 ` Olivier Galibert
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