Subject: Re: Files over 2Gb?
From: Paul Reilly (pareilly@tcd.ie)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 07:06:39 EST
> Is it simply the case that the Appleshare file system is a bit dated and,
> like HFS, can't recognise files greater than 2Gb?
>
I would have thought this is the same problem I had with linux.
>From my understanding of reaching this limit in linux, it
is not specific to the filesystem, but is in fact caused by the
data structures in the c programming routines which are used to
represent files in the filesystem. Up to recently, the c data
structures used for low level filesystem routines had a limit of 2 Gb.
For linux, I was told that I could update my kernel C funtions to handle
files larger than 2GB.
The point is I think the reason this limit exists is due to
old data structure sizes in c, not the actual filesystem.
Paul
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