Re: large file support? (fwd)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 17 Aug 1997 17:29:39 +0100 (BST)


> I don't understand enough of all this VFS stuff to argue. But me
> thinks that even for opaque file handles like the one for NFS there
> must be a way to extract the position in the file etc. So one can add
> this information locally !?

For NFSv3 you could indeed check the size at open time - that size might
change on you across the network but as an initial check yes you are
indeed perfectly correct. Good point.

> development code of the maintainer of these packages). Sun did it
> like this: they ship 2.6 with the new interface and all system tools
> rewritten to use the LFS interface.

Ok.

> I think we need not see the interface/libc change and the tools
> separately: both upgrades will have to happen at the same time and
> doing this is easy.

That makes a lot of sense.