Support of files/raw partitions > 4Gb

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Fri Feb 2 14:43:53 UTC 2007


Russ Allbery wrote:
> Kirill Berezin <kyb at online.ru> writes:
>
>   
>> Hie workers!
>>     
>
>   
>> I have a simple question: is it possible to use with inn, say 2.4.3,
>> buffers with siezes > 4Gb for both cnfs and overview storage. It is
>> written in source code buffer length cannot be larger than long maximum
>> value, that is 4Gb maximum.
>>     
>
> Hm, where is that in the source?
>
> I'm fairly sure people are already running CNFS with much larger buffers
> than that.  You do have to build with large file support.
>
>   
Is he talking about buffers or CNFS files? File size limit is whatever 
offset_t will hold.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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