Lisa says,
>> Silicon Graphic's IRIX operating systems will let you have up to an
>> 8Gig file system. This is accomplished through the use of logical
>> volumes that span disks which can use striping if you choose. We use
>> them here at FERMI all the time. Transarc is working right now on a
>> port of AFS to IRIX. We currently using Silicon Graphics systems in
>> our afs cell via the AFS/NFS translator until the port of AFS for
>> IRIX is available.
Wasn't the original request for a file of 6G? And the reason
we wanted to get large logical volume was cause we figured
it would live in one file...
That means the problem is you can't use 31, or 32 bits to specify an lseek
location in the file, right? And that's the underlying problem.
Cause every read keeps track of ..._offset (in the u.u_offset
family of values).
So the lseek interface is now broken, just like the seek interface
was broken.
To do that you need a file system which can support larger
basic file sizes... IRIX may do this, it makes sense that it
would. Episode does this too, but I'm not too sure you can
get Episode right now (it has 64 bit offsets).
mts.
(lisa, does IRIX support a different lseek? Does it have
files with huge offsets?)
