Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Aug 1998 18:37:36 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: >2G files patch wanted |
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Hi,
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 01:19:56 -0400, Allanah Myles <dossy@panoptic.com> said:
> On 1998.07.30, Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> wrote: >> It seems we need some way of handling files >2G. Could someone hack the >> kernel to do so?
> Solaris has implemented this and called it their "largefile" support. > Is that a POSIX-like thing or did they just invent it themselves? > Is that an amenable way to provide "large file" support in Linux?
The LFS (Large File Standard) was developed with support from several of the key Unix companies, so it's not a Sun-only thing by a long way. The last time I looked it was at:
http://www.sas.com/standards/large.file/
Support is planned in Linux 2.3.
--Stephen
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