Large (>2 GB?) file size support in Konqueror

[Fabian Wolf]

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On Monday 24 June 2002 00:43, Chris Howells wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Somebody I know using KDE 3.0 managed to generate the following screenshot:
>
> http://www.lurch.org.uk/snapshot1.png
>
> Is there any known problems that would cause this? Apparently the file was
> 2.6GB, considerably smaller than the 16TB that Konqueror claims :P

This happened to me a lot while writing the dvd IO-Slave. It was caused 
because KIO::filesize_t was too small to hold filesizes over a certain value 
(We count bytes!) It was then changed to an "unsigned long long int". This 
_should_ be sufficient, but well, on 32bit platforms it probably won't take 
long before we run out of space to hold filesize values that big.
How is the kernel handling those huge numbers? Spanning them across several 
variables?

Fabian

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