Re: Files > 2Gb on HP-UX 10.20

"Gaja K. Vaidyanatha" <gvaidyan_at_us.oracle.com> wrote:

>Chris Ruemmler wrote:
 

> I don't think I brought across the point that I wanted to in
>my previous note. All I wanted to communicate is that if you run
>a 32 bit OS, 2G is all you get just because you have only 2^32 bits
>for addressing. If you run a 32/64 bit OS or a pure 64 bit OS, then
>the potential addressability is 2^64. I am fully aware of OSs(HP-UX
>included) do support 4G if not 8G files in a filesystem today, but it
>depends on the version of the OS and the vendor. Nothing against HP-UX
>10.20. Sorry for any confusion this might have caused.

I thought that a 32-bit OS meant that it used 32 bit instructions. If this limitation is also imposed on file systems supported by the OS, why then can Netware 3.12, a 32 bit OS unless I'm mistaken, handle > 2g files.

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