site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Feb 22, 2008, at 09:28, Valentin Slavov wrote: Yeah, I thought about that but you can't put a 16TB file in a sparse image (the image grows, even if the file contains only zeroes). Sparse files would be great but unfortunately HFS+ doesn't support them. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... I would try using MacFUSE to build a simple filesystem that pretends to have very large files in it. It would probably result in far many less hours of work to get what you need. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com