Re: Is there a file system flag for >2GB file support?
Re: Is there a file system flag for >2GB file support?
- Subject: Re: Is there a file system flag for >2GB file support?
- From: Brian Bergstrand <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:54:20 -0500
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How about an extension to getattrlist()? Another VOL_CAP?
Perhaps VOL_CAP_FMT_LARGE_FILES?
I'd also like to see getattrlist() extended so the FS UUID can be
accessed.
On May 11, 2004, at 12:53 AM, Sam Vaughan wrote:
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d'Oh!
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3650132.
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If FCP were testing the bSupports2TBFiles bit, which VOP/VFS interface
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would the Carbon File Manager be using to ask us the answer? I'd like
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to put the code in now so that it will all just work when FCP/CFM are
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fixed.
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Thanks Quinn,
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Sam
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On 11/05/2004, at 3:00 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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> Hmmm, I think that there are least two issues here. For a start, FCP
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> (or whatever underlies it) should determine whether a volume supports
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> large files by testing the bSupports2TBFiles bit in the
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> vMExtendedAttributes field of the GetVolParmsInfoBuffer returned by
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> the Carbon File Manager routine PBHGetVolParmsSync. However, it
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> doesn't look like it's doing this (because of the next point). I'd
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> consider that a bug.
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> Second, it seems that the Carbon File Manager sets this flag based on
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> a simple volume identifier check. If the volume is original HFS, it
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> clears the flag, otherwise it sets it. This is a bug IMHO. The
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> Carbon File Manager should not contain hard-wired special cases for
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> particular file systems.
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> You know the drill...
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> <http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/>
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