From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:28:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem with large files on different OSes
Message-ID: <43d8ce650905270628o2eb4ed3cqf6b78e00933198af@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A1D2614.5060303@op5.se>

2009/5/27 Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>:
> Christopher Jefferson wrote:
>> If the requirement that all files can be mmapped cannot be easily removed,
>> would be it perhaps be acceptable to impose a (soft?) 1GB(ish) file size
>> limit?
>
> Most definitely not. Why should we limit a cross-platform system for
> the benefit of one particular developer's lacking hardware?

Perhaps a simple warning would suffice  "Warning: Files larger than
2GB may cause problems when trying to checkout on Windows."

John