Thanks for the graphs. They were interesting.
> I think the 64-bit API comes first. That would get 4 GB files
> without much (any?) change to the main ext2 code.
I just wanted to point out that the Alpha and Ultrasparc should be
able to use large files w/o any API changes. size_t and off_t should
already be longs on these platforms. The API is only needed for 32 bit
machines.
> I can't test any code; this is just very interesting for me.
> If only I could buy an 11 TB disk cluster from EMC... :-)
dont forget you can:
int fd = open("/tmp/xyz", O_WONLY, 0600);
write(fd, "x", 1);
lseek(fd, 1024*1024*2, SEEK_CUR);
write(fd, "x", 1);
should create you a file slightly over 2G that takes very little disk space.
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