On 03/09/10 18:19, George Gallen wrote: > Guess I'll have to split into 2g pieces...since I'm on 10.0 > > Seems odd, since sequentially, your not reading the entire file... > not worth upgrading over that one issue however. > > Thanks It's historic. Most file access is deep-coded in the operating system, and if I've got it right, 2g is the largest number that will fit into a signed long. So that 2g limit was embedded pretty hard in the OS, in the file access libraries, in programs, basically all over everywhere. And if you can't point any deeper into a file than 2g, your maximum file size is 2g! I remember working on SCO unix, where the maximum *partition* was 2g. It took a long time to remove all the places with that limit ...
And where programmers had had the sense to use unsigned (you can't have a negative offset), this merely caused a 4g problem instead. How many people can remember upgrading their pcs and shoving a nice new 6g drive in to replace the original 2g or 3g? And then having to DOWNgrade before getting a new bios, because the new disk caused the bios to crash? I had to fix a couple of pcs that way :-) Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
