Re: [MiNT] Partition sizes

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:02:21 , George Nakos <ggn@thebat.net> wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> Friday, August 20, 2010, 5:42:02 PM, you wrote:
>
> > The GEMDOS calls could be re-written but then the apps calling them
> > wouldn't handle to returned 64 bit value.
>
> > I presume this is was the same problem that Windows, MacOS and others
> > have had to deal with.
>
> > Has the Atari not had to deal with similar problems in the past ?
>
> Who  on  Earth  has  created  a file that's >2gb meant to be used in a
> Atari app?
>
> And  to  be totally honest, I'd rather pursue the author of the app to
> fix  this,  rather  than  retro-fixing  every  known  ST/TT/Falcon/etc
> application  in  existence.  For  example, if you need to burn an iso,
> split  it  in  1gb or even 2gb chunks and then instruct the program to
> read them in succession. That's far more realistic IMHO
>
>
You are right this is potentially a never ending problem as files get
bigger and bigger. How long would a fix now last ? What happens when
someone wants to create a Terabyte file ?

Is there a solution that will allow the creation of very large files that
are actually stored as 1GB chunks ?

Peter