File sizes

Michael O'Donnell mod+gnhlug at std.com
Tue Aug 20 08:02:18 EDT 2002


> Can the 2GB file size limit be changed?  I need to store about
> 10GB worth of data in a single file, but it dies at 2GB.


Very descriptive.  What "dies" ?

I believe that, in general, recent kernels
and libraries do now support large files, but
many of the apps need to be modified to use the
new interfaces and types (fpos_t and friends)
instead of just "int" to represent file sizes...




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