Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 02:08:30 -0800
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Anton Petrusevich <casus@att-ltd.biz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ftruncate64
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:23:10AM +0600, Anton Petrusevich wrote:

> ftruncate64(1, 2199023255552)           = -1 EFBIG (File too large)

Depends on your fs, some fs's will allow you to create much larger
files that others:

cw@pain:~$ truncate -c -s100t big-file
cw@pain:~$ ls -lh big-file
-rw-r--r--    1 cw       cw           100T Mar  3 02:05 big-file


Note, you might need a 64-bit system to be able to write to all of
that because the index into the buffer-cache is an unsigned long.  For
me on my notebook I can't write past 8T.


  --cw
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