Re: ftruncate64

Bill Davidsen
2004-03-03T21:37:11Z

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:23:10AM +0600, Anton Petrusevich wrote:
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>>ftruncate64(1, 2199023255552) = -1 EFBIG (File too large)
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> Depends on your fs, some fs's will allow you to create much larger
> files that others:
>
> cw@pain:~$ truncate -c -s100t big-file
> cw@pain:~$ ls -lh big-file
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cw cw 100T Mar 3 02:05 big-file
>
>
> Note, you might need a 64-bit system to be able to write to all of
> that because the index into the buffer-cache is an unsigned long. For
> me on my notebook I can't write past 8T.

If that's an issue I want a laptop like yours! Disk size aside, writing
8T would take longer than the MTBF of both the disk and the owner :-(