On 08/22/2014 12:09 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Adam wrote: >> I know it's a rare scenario > > The next time you copy a file containing 19 exabytes let us know. :-)
By the way, even at a lightning-fast rate of a gigabyte a second, such a copy wouldn't complete in your lifetime. > > If we're going to fix this, I suggest removing the limit entirely; > that's better than generating a warning if the limit is gone past. I > expect there are plenty of places in the code that stop working after > 2**63 bytes, and I'd focus on them first. The size of 2**63 is so huge that it is as good as unlimited, for anything we can do in a finite lifetime, and we don't have to bend over backwards trying to treat it as an artificial limitation. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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