On Thu, 31 May 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> Solaris 2.6 instroduced large file support by allowing files up to 2GB.
> With 7 and up in 64-bit mode it is unlimited.
I think Solaris 8 & higher, the limit is something like 4 or 8 terabytes.
For all intents and purposes, it's unlimited.
> Solaris x86 is still 32-bit and I'm not entirely sure just how large a
> file you could use reasonably on it. Try reading the lfcompile man page
> and the README.solaris in the perl 5.6.1 source. Perl should be able to
> handle as large a file you can make if you follow the tips in the README.
It's possible that x86 can go past 2GB, now that I think about it. The
Linux 2.4 kernel, also 32-bit, can handle files larger than 2GB now. Perl
may need to have this support built into it explicitly, as you say.
-- Brett
Brett W. McCoy
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