Subject: Re: Files over 2Gb?
From: David Heayn (heayn@usc.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 16:44:37 EST
>As I mentioned in an earlier post, the machine is a new G4 with OS 9.0.4.
>The local drives are formatted as HFS+ and happily handle reasonably big
>files - the biggest so far being 15Gb.
>
>Is it simply the case that the Appleshare file system is a bit dated and,
>like HFS, can't recognise files greater than 2Gb?
>
>Given the sort of work we're doing, this restriction could be extremely
>irritating...
>
>Russell.
My point was that an HFS formatted disk will only be 2 gigs big if you have
a mac plus reading it or some super duper pre-release version of macOS11.
Up until recently there was a 2 gig limit on linux disks. That has been
gone at least since earlier this year. (I think the new maximum amount of
addressable memory is around 512GB.)
I installed mandrake 7.0 on a friends computer, he had a 6 gig internal and
a 20 gig "take-out" drive. I don't really follow kernel news that closely.
Right now, I don't have the oportunity to try reformating my mountable
netatalk partition in HFS+ format. If anyone on the list has that chance
please try it and share with us. Like I said, it's real easy. Mount remote
drive, format it with a version of Drive Setup that came with 8.0 (or
newer). Remount and see if you have more than 2GB available. Worse case
scenrio, your mac freezes, that "virtual partition" is ruined, and you have
to restart your mac, and trash all the data in the alloted directory under
linux.
As a workaround you could always create "X" amount of partitions depending
on the free space in your linux box. Final cut, or after effects don't mind
addressing more than one disk for overflow concerns.
--- DAVE
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