I thought it was a kernel/glib/filesystem issue that really didn't have much
to do with the word size of the hardware.
You would figure that you could have the kernel compensate by doing the
pointer/offset math 32-bits at a time and hence enable it to do a lseek on a
64 bit value on IA32 hardware (it would be slower); Especially since they
have filesystems that are larger than 2GB (32bits) but it's been too long
since I worked at that low of a level.
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] files larger than 2 GB
> -> > I would appreciate information about the possibility of creating
files
> -> > larger than 2 GB.
[snip]
> It is a Linux kernel limitation on 32 bit architectures (e.g. 80x86)
[snip]
> I seem to recall somewhere reading that this wil be addressed in the 2.4
> kernels. Any kernel watchers care to verify this?
