Bob,
First thanks for the tool. I have been wanting to play around with large files on Linux, but have not wanted to deal with 3 Gb files... Second it would seem that for me your program will only create a file up to 1.1 Gb in size. I tried it on three Linux boxes two running ext3 and one running ReiserFS (both of which should do a file larger than 2Gb). I also tried it on a Sun E250 running Solaris 8. Now I know for a fact that my E250 will create a file over 200 Gb (don't ask, it was a bad weekend), but using your little tool all I get are files that are ~1.1 Gb. What did I do wrong????
Garl
-rw-r--r-- 1 grigsby gtac 1073741824 May 9 18:57 a-big-file
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 12:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EUG-LUG:2583] Re: BIG FILES
Kahli R. Burke wrote:
> SO...how much are those 8TB drives running these days? Could you spare
> me a couple?
I wondered who'd call me on that first. The size of the file is 8 TB.
But it's a sparse file. It only has 44 nonzero bytes in it, and it
only uses 488 Kb of disk space.
Here's the program that created it. To use on Linux, compile like
this.
cc -o bigfile bigfile.c -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
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