Paul Eggert wrote:
> Well, I can imagine a small embedded system where files and
> streams cannot possibly be larger than 2 GiB.
Yes, such as my router here:
prompt> df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram0 4475 3487 988 78% /
/dev/mtdblock6 960 332 628 35% /configs
prompt> free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 59768 26140 33628 0 456
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 59768 26140 33628
But wait... This router has an USB port, where the user can plug USB disks
in Ext2 or FAT format, and the router will serve them via FTP. So, even
for this small Linux (it uses BusyBox) it makes sense to support files
larger than 2 GB.
> If this is a real issue, and if someone takes the time, I think
> it'd be OK to add small-file support to gnulib
This support already exists: the gnulib-tool option
--avoid=largefile. But really, I would not recommend this to anyone.
Bruno
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