On 2006-01-27, rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I'm still trying to pick my jaw up off of the floor. One > question... how big of a file could this method create? 20GB, > 30GB, limit depends on filesystem, etc?
Right. Back in the day, the old libc and ext2 code had a 2GB file size limit at one point (it used an signed 32 bit value to keep track of file size/position). That was back when 1GB drive was something to brag about, so it wasn't a big deal for most people. I think everthing has large file support is enabled by default now, so the limit is 2^63 for most "modern" filesystems -- that's the limit of the file size you can create using the seek() trick. The limit for actual on-disk bytes may not be that large. Here's a good link: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm GLAD I at remembered to XEROX all visi.com my UNDERSHIRTS!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
