in reply to Slurping a large (>65 gb) into buffer

65 Gigabytes? I'm sorry, but 1) is that even possible with common operating systems? and 2) if you've got files that large, have you considered that, except for content like movies, this may not be the most rational way to store them?
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Re^2: Slurping a large (>65 gb) into buffer
by jfroebe (Parson) on Oct 01, 2007 at 19:19 UTC

    I'm just answering the "is that even possible with common operating systems",... yes and for some time. The question really isn't the operating system as a whole but more of a "can the filesystem handle really big files (>32GBytes)". IIRC... JFS, XFS and ZFS can all handle files orders of magnitude greater than 32GB.

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