[ale] [Fwd: Large capture files.]

[Wandered Inn]

Received an answer to this question from a pretty reliable source.

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > in a recent PC Week Online article, there was a mention that Linux does not
> > support files bigger than 2gb.
> >
> >         http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,383862,00.html
> >
> > is this reality ?
> 
> On a 32bit machine yes. Thats normal for Unix machines (and indeed most
> other OS's) - it comes from the fact 2Gig is 2^31 bytes, and you need
> 1 bit for sign for lseek(). On the Alpha under 2.2pre you can go way
> further - ditto Ultrasparc.
> 
> There is development working already in place to support the SGI originated
> 64bit file on 32bit machine API (open64/read64/lseek64 etc) but that is
> going be 2.3 stuff (and one assumes a 2.2 add on in time)
> 
> Alan
> 
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