Re: Filesize limitation
Martin von Loewis (martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Tue, 4 Nov 1997 08:52:02 +0100
> With 9GB disks being that cheap I expect to see people putting
> larger and larger files into them.
>
> Does anyone know of a workaround? My suggestion was to split the
> files. But sometimes that's simply not possible.
One option is to use a raw partition. If it then still cannot access
the bytes beyond 2GB, it is clearly an application error. Please note
that the application must be especially prepared to support large
files, most likely by using llseek.
Regards,
Martin