Re: Off-topic :: Re: [Evolution] Sent file too large

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:12 +0530, B S Srinidhi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 12:42 -0800, Greg Tassone wrote:
> > FYI:  I am running ReiserFS on the 2.6.13 kernel series (version 3.6.19
> > of reiserfsprogs) and I'm having zero problems regularly handling 20 GB
> > container files and the like.
> > 
> 
> Oh! Thanx for giving me that info. I always thought that the limit of
> file that a process in 'Linux' can handle is controlled by VFS or libc.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong. 

libc, kinda.

The traditional fseek() function is limited to 2^31-1.  However,
there has been a quadword fseek() for quite some time.  So, source
code mods are required.

> I know this is way too off-topic... but could you (or someone else)
> please point me to some good doc that covers File System and the limits
> imposed by these.
> 
> Srinidhi.

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