From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ftruncate64
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:42:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4046512F.9000901@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1vBDZ-48V-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:23:10AM +0600, Anton Petrusevich wrote:
>
>
>>ftruncate64(1, 2199023255552) = -1 EFBIG (File too large)
>
>
> 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 :-(
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2004-03-03 21:42 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2004-02-25 23:27 ftruncate64 Anton Petrusevich
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2004-02-25 23:23 ftruncate64 Anton Petrusevich
2004-03-03 10:08 ` ftruncate64 Chris Wedgwood
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