Subject: Re: Problems with very large files?
To: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/26/2001 20:42:50
hi,

I fixed some bugs in this area a few weeks ago, but it looks like
there were more.  I've checked in some more fixes, please let me know
if you still have problems.

-Chuck


On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:11:33PM -0600, Dave Huang wrote:
> Does the NetBSD userland have problems with large files? I've got this
> file that's a bit over 4 gigs:
> 
> -rw-r-----   1 khym  wheel  4311982080 Feb 25 13:53 jeff.img
> 
> but everything seems to think it's 17014784 bytes long (which is the
> file size mod 4 gigs)... for example:
> 
> yerfable ~/jeff> wc jeff.img
>   166076  846517 17014784 jeff.img
> yerfable ~/jeff> cat jeff.img>abc ; ls -l abc
> -rw-r-----  1 khym  wheel  17014784 Feb 25 14:09 abc
> yerfable ~/jeff> dd if=jeff.img of=abc
> 33232+0 records in
> 33232+0 records out
> 17014784 bytes transferred in 2 secs (8507392 bytes/sec)
> 
> I'm even running on NetBSD/alpha, with nice 64-bitness :) (1.5R Feb 12
> kernel, Feb 3 userland)