2 gigs

[Justin Huff]

But you often loose one bit to a sign.  This is because lseek takes a signed
long.
--Justin

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Orange" <oranged at u.washington.edu>
To: "UW Linux Group" <linux at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: 2 gigs


> A little guidance...
> A 32 bit arch supports 4 gigs, (2^32 > 4 *10^9)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brett G. Monroe" <bmonroe at u.washington.edu>
> To: "UW Linux Group" <linux at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 12:35 PM
> Subject: 2 gigs
>
>
> > Another potentially stupid question:
> >
> > Is Linux's inability to deal with files > 2 gigs a product of the
kernel,
> > fs, or that it's all sitting on a 32 bit arch?  (or is it something else
> > entirely)
> >
> >  )  |o)____               ) Dept. Microbiology )
> > (   |0)re||  |\/|        (  HS K443B     616-4285 (
> >  )           |  |onroe    ) bmonroe at u.washington.edu )
> > ( (
> >  )  No conclusions about what we ought to do can validly )
> > (   be drawn from a description of what most people in  (
> >  )  our society think we ought to do. -Peter Singer )
> >
>
>