From: Christopher Jefferson <caj@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:30:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem with large files on different OSes
Message-ID: <submission.1M9JCt-00047m-4a@mail.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650905270628o2eb4ed3cqf6b78e00933198af@mail.gmail.com>


On 27 May 2009, at 14:28, John Tapsell wrote:

> 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."
>

Something like that, except that limit seems to be only 1.3GB on Mac  
OS X

Chris