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Huge File Support
When c-tree Plus was created, 10MB hard drives were considered large. A 2 GB maximum file size was sufficient, if not unimaginable.
More than 20 years have passed. With 64-bit operating systems becoming common and 4GB hard drives being considered bottom-of-the-line, the need has developed to support 8-byte addresses for file offsets. This provides a maximum file size of (4GB)2, or more than 16,000,000 terabytes, per file.
FairCom supports huge files in two ways:
- Huge files - 8-byte offsets as described in this chapter.
- Segmented files - logical files distributed across multiple physical files, as described in “Segmented File Support”.
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