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Re: Problem with large files on different OSes

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John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date
May 27, 2009, 13:32 UTC
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2009/5/27 Christopher Jefferson <caj@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk>:
> Something like that, except that limit seems to be only 1.3GB on Mac OS X

Does linux have a similar limitation, lower than the limit imposed by the filesystem? Could this be solved by having a fallback solution for mmap? (switching to opening the file normally) Or would this fallback be too intrusive/large of a change?

John
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