From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:32:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem with large files on different OSes
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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