Re: Question: File size limitations.

[joseph hardin <lazer@zianet.com>]

can't confirm it for sure(without some long lengthy procedure thats not worth it)
It might just be listing it wrong, but a friends cd also has the files listed as
those sizes on his computer

laguna@fortress.ourmag.com wrote:

> Hi Joseph,
>
> A CD won't hold more than 650-7xx MB of data, depending on the CD and the
> drive. The file in question is questionable. :)
>
> For one thing, can you confirm that the file length really is 3GB or just
> listed as 3GB? :)
>
> I've had files on my floppy disk show up as several Terrabytes. Happens
> when the FAT gets messed up or mis-interpretted.
>
> Wing. ;)
>
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, joseph hardin wrote:
>
> > My delta force cd has a 3gig file on it, and like another 1 gig file on
> > it(since when can cd's hold more than 2 gigs?)
> >
> > laguna@fortress.ourmag.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Not sure how much of an impact this has in game programming, but for some
> > > video clips I'm working on, I've kinda run into a problem with file size
> > > limitations.
> > >
> > > The Situation:
> > >
> > > - 30-40GB of drive space dump site for raw Video and Audio streams to be
> > >   streamed into a file. (Later to be converted into Mpeg2 Video)
> > >
> > > - Would like to record long clips.
> > >
> > > The Problem:
> > >
> > > - 2GB file size limit on the filesystem I'm using. (Ext2 under Linux).
> > >   (I think there is a similar limit under Window's filesystem, but not
> > >    sure what's the actual number, if it differs from the 2GB limit.)
> > >
> > > The Question:
> > >
> > > What would be a good way of working around this limitation aside from just
> > > breaking up the file into smaller segments? Like say I'd like to record
> > > about an hour's worth of SVHS quality video and CD quality audio data and
> > > there just isn't a desire to break the clip.
> > >
> > > Any other filesystems which can support single files in excess of 2GB
> > > which would work under Linux?
> > >
> > > I realise the splitting of the file is the easiest solution, but would
> > > also like to know what other options exist.
> > >
> > > Wing.
> > >
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