Re: files > 2GB

From: Chris Farey (chris@k-par.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 11:46:53 EST


>All three. VFS does not support them so you can not have files > 2GiB on
>32bit proccessor with ANY filesystem though.

Are there any plans to implement 64-bit file sizes in VFS? What are
the problems - is it anything more than making a few fields 64-bit
quantities instead of 32-bit ones, and implementing a couple of new
system calls?

Chris Farey chris@k-par.com

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