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SubjectRe: VFS/ext2fs - large files on the Alpha (fails for 17GB+)
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 01:32:12AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> No; there is a "64 on 32" standard API recently developed, which
> uses an "lseek64" type. Either way, I believe the issue has been
> (wisely) postponed to 2.3.

Oh, its a 2.3.x issue no doubt about it.

There are many complexities with very large files, e.g. >>2gb,
especially when you consider mmap, etc.

But, it seems there might be a simpler `half-way' case which won't
require lots of vm reworking, for files between 2gb and the maximum
size of userland, normally 3GB.

Even when/if we do support obscenely large files (e.g. 10GB) for
Intel, we still will only ever be able to mmap a small part of them.



-cw


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