Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: VFS/ext2fs - large files on the Alpha (fails for 17GB+) | Date | Wed, 19 Aug 1998 01:50:33 -0700 (PDT) |
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> > 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. >
True, but is that enough of a difference that it pays for the complexity?
> > 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. >
10 GB isn't "obscenely large", IMO... I'd reserve that for files in the 200-300 GB range (larger than most filesystems.)
Perhaps I'm just spoiled; none of the systems I use regularly has less than 11 GB of disk...
-hpa
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