Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:41:47 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Support for >2Gig files on i386 |
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On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 06:55:33PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> That's why I was suggesting an approach that bypasses the VFS and the > generic file read/write routines for files >2GB. It's almost certainly > easier to implement, and I suspect it will fit more people's needs.
Surely it depends what people use >2GB files for?
Sure, large databases use them - but them most real databases allow you to use multiple devices[*]/files....
If we are to allow some files to bypass the VFS, then this actually might be a nice thing to do for other files, depending on a flag passed to open(2).
-cw
[*] Here I mean: Device == database device != linux block device
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