Re: Limitations in FreeBSD

[Michael Beckmann]

On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 02:56:00PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >     Block devices are being removed from the system so the answer is
> >     no at the moment.  If people have a need, we will probably introduce
> >     a block device overlay of some sort that would theoretically be mmapable.
> 
> I think he means block device as in 'disk' not as in 'brwxrwxrwx"

I was thinking of using a disk without a filesystem, for example for the CNFS
storage method in INN. This requires that the device is mmapable.

OK, so I know now that I can have pretty large files in the Terabyte range.
Very nice. But I assume I cannot mmap anything like a 100 GB file ?

Michael


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