Re: Problem with large files on different OSes

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On 27 May 2009, at 14:28, John Tapsell wrote:

2009/5/27 Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx>:
Christopher Jefferson wrote:
If the requirement that all files can be mmapped cannot be easily removed, would be it perhaps be acceptable to impose a (soft?) 1GB(ish) file size
limit?

Most definitely not. Why should we limit a cross-platform system for
the benefit of one particular developer's lacking hardware?

Perhaps a simple warning would suffice  "Warning: Files larger than
2GB may cause problems when trying to checkout on Windows."


Something like that, except that limit seems to be only 1.3GB on Mac OS X

Chris
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