On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:37:16 -0700, Shashi Bhusan Patra wrote: > Kevin Krieser wrote: > > >But do you have any files over 4 GB? > > > > > oh you mean any file whose size is 4GB+ ?? NO, certainly not. that is > not directly possible on a 32 bit system. That's a wrong assumption. 32-bit CPU registers do not imply that you could not implement 64-bit (or larger) file seek pointers. The limitation is the file-system implementation. See bottom of the following page about an overview of current Linux filesystems: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html --
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