Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Aug 1998 20:37:16 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: VFS/ext2fs - large files on the Alpha (fails for 17GB+) |
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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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