Re: Support for >2Gig files on i386

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:42:46 +0200


> Also, many people who want >2GB files might not be happy with the speed
> tradeoff to get >2GB files.

When we restrict to read/write/llseek for >2GB files (i.e., we won't implement
mmap() on them), the effect on speed will be probably unnoticeable.

Have a nice fortnight

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