On Oct 21, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: > > Never having used the 64 bit world (still a PPC 10.5.8 person), does > the 32 bit kernel let a file go bigger than 4GiB?
maximum file size isn't dependent on the size of the pointers in the kernel. All versions of Mac OS X have been able to deal with large files: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2422 (even Mac OS 8 could support large files - http://support.apple.com/kb/TA21924?viewlocale=en_US ) > Do writes of big > data stay as atomic as writes of small data? it depends on what you mean - but probably the answer you need is no (consider that it takes time for your hard drive to actually write the data out). -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
