Hi, Tim Newsome <nuisance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 04:56:57PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > > > A while back I wanted to open this huge satellite image I downloaded > > > from NASA, and the Gimp required more than 2Gb of swap space. It > > > didn't work, so I wrote a new tile-swap.c which makes additional > > > swap files once the current one hits 1Gb. > > > this shouldn't be necessary since the current code should handle large > > swap files (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74478). > > But that requires file system support for >2Gb files. My patch doesn't. is that a real-world problem? I mean are people really working with large images and use filesystems that don't support files >2GB ? I wouldn't like to do significant changes to the tile swap code without a really good reason. Salut, Sven
