Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:42:07 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: ftruncate64 |
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Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:23:10AM +0600, Anton Petrusevich wrote: > > >>ftruncate64(1, 2199023255552) = -1 EFBIG (File too large) > > > Depends on your fs, some fs's will allow you to create much larger > files that others: > > cw@pain:~$ truncate -c -s100t big-file > cw@pain:~$ ls -lh big-file > -rw-r--r-- 1 cw cw 100T Mar 3 02:05 big-file > > > Note, you might need a 64-bit system to be able to write to all of > that because the index into the buffer-cache is an unsigned long. For > me on my notebook I can't write past 8T.
If that's an issue I want a laptop like yours! Disk size aside, writing 8T would take longer than the MTBF of both the disk and the owner :-( - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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