From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sat Aug 21 10:48:55 2010 X-Squirrel-UserHash: EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDQ== X-Squirrel-FromHash: UANfXlhHTAE= Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <001bc78e.01b91262ceb8@smtp.freeola.net> References: <98678662.20100820210221@thebat.net> <001bc78e.01b91262ceb8@smtp.freeola.net> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:46:44 +0200 Subject: Re: [MiNT] Partition sizes From: "m0n0" To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Reply-To: ole@monochrom.net User-Agent: Host Europe Webmailer/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-HE-Access: Yes X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;ole@monochrom.net;1282402004;f9a9042f; X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ole@monochrom.net Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Am Sa, 21.08.2010, 14:42 schrieb Peter Slegg: > You are right this is potentially a never ending problem as files get > bigger and bigger. How long would a fix now last ? What happens when > someone wants to create a Terabyte file ? > > Is there a solution that will allow the creation of very large files that > are actually stored as 1GB chunks ? > > Peter > What about the system calls Fstat64() and Fseek64() ? Mint 1.15 changelog say they where introduced... if that's working, you just need apps that call these functions instead of the old ones. Maybe I'm wrong and these system calls can not be used for filesystem files???