Re: VFS/ext2fs - large files on the Alpha (fails for 17GB+)
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Wed, 19 Aug 1998 01:17:10 -0700 (PDT)
> On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 07:32:15AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > It's 2 GB due to signed 32-bit arithmetric.
>
> But why _must_ it be signed?
>
Mostly because of the lseek() interface, AFAIK.
-hpa
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