From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA50892 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:58:20 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id LAA31089 for linux-list; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:57:13 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from machine.engr.sgi.com (machine.engr.sgi.com [150.166.75.58]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id LAA38264; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:57:11 -0800 (PST) mail_from (jes@machine.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from jes@localhost) by machine.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id LAA24028; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:57:10 -0800 (PST) From: jes@machine.engr.sgi.com (John E. Schimmel) Message-Id: <199811251957.LAA24028@machine.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: help offered To: galibert@pobox.com (Olivier Galibert) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:57:10 -0800 (PST) Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <19981125204900.A4692@loria.fr> from "Olivier Galibert" at Nov 25, 98 08:49:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > > 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 -------------------------------------------------------------- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: jes@machine.engr.sgi.com (John E. Schimmel) Message-ID: <199811251957.LAA24028@machine.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: help offered Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:57:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <19981125204900.A4692@loria.fr> from "Olivier Galibert" at Nov 25, 98 08:49:00 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: Olivier Galibert Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19981125195710.1gaNWUXLOLKC-6auP5feVjUjx6NIW1Vw9vTBONBX0iA@z> > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------