Re: 2 gb file limit

Chuck Renaud wrote: > > But the Online internally uses page numbers and the page number value is > > sotred in a fixed number of bits. Maximum page number IS FIXED > > That's the way I understood it, despite our marketing claims. The > only "workaround" I've heard of is that the offset and size can each > be up to 2GB. It doesn't answer the 2GB chunk size issue, but > does allow 4GB volumes to be used. On a 64-bit platform, the offset will probably go considerably higher than that. The size is still limited to 2GB (on a 2k pagesize port) by the page addressing. The limitation on offset+size<= 2GB was due to lseek taking a signed long. On 32-bit platforms, this meant lseek couldn't seek past 2GB, effectively limiting your offset+size to 2GB. Some platforms used an unsigned long, which let you go as high as 4GB. On 64-bit platforms, this limitation went away. However, mentioned: the official *supported* limit is 2GB. > I haven't tried that stunt myself and I do know it isn't officially > supported. I'd rather have the administrative burden of chopping up > a bunch of 2GB volumes than risk the integrity of my data. Good choice. June -- june_t@hotmail.com Grounded in Palo Alto, living on Oreo's