git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Jefferson <caj@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk>
Cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with large files on different OSes
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:32:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43d8ce650905270632t2a2914b4j340a5cfd756023a4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <submission.1M9JCt-00047m-4a@mail.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk>

2009/5/27 Christopher Jefferson <caj@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk>:
> Something like that, except that limit seems to be only 1.3GB on Mac OS X

Does linux have a similar limitation, lower than the limit imposed by
the filesystem?
Could this be solved by having a fallback solution for mmap?
(switching to opening the file normally)  Or would this fallback be
too intrusive/large of a change?

John

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-27 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-27 10:52 Problem with large files on different OSes Christopher Jefferson
2009-05-27 11:37 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-27 13:02   ` Christopher Jefferson
2009-05-27 13:28   ` John Tapsell
2009-05-27 13:30     ` Christopher Jefferson
2009-05-27 13:32       ` John Tapsell [this message]
2009-05-27 14:01 ` Tomas Carnecky
2009-05-27 14:09   ` Christopher Jefferson
2009-05-27 14:22     ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-27 14:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-27 16:30   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-27 16:59     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-27 17:22       ` Christopher Jefferson
2009-05-27 17:30         ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-27 17:37       ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-27 21:53         ` Jeff King
2009-05-27 22:07           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-27 23:09             ` Alan Manuel Gloria
2009-05-28  1:56               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-28  3:26                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-28  4:21                   ` Eric Raible
2009-05-28  4:30                     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-05-28  5:52                       ` Eric Raible
2009-05-28  8:52                         ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-28 17:41                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-28 19:43             ` Jeff King
2009-05-28 19:49               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-27 23:29           ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-28 20:00             ` Jeff King
2009-05-28 20:54               ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-28 21:21                 ` Jeff King

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=43d8ce650905270632t2a2914b4j340a5cfd756023a4@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=johnflux@gmail.com \
    --cc=ae@op5.se \
    --cc=caj@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).