Re: [ROOT] Limitations on file size...

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 11:25:17 MEST


Hi Thomas,

  currently ROOT files are limited to 2 GB. In the near future we plan
to support 64 bit files (in a backward compatible way, all internals are
already in place). Further there are no ROOT file limitations.

Cheers, Fons.



On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 10:50, Thomas Bretz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we are now planning how to write our data to files. Because it is a huge
> amount of data per second we want to have as less files as possible. So
> my question: What are the limitations in terms of file size (and other
> limitations) coming from root? Or does it depend on the underlaying OS?
> I tried to find non-outdated informations about it on the web-page, but
> I faild to find something with the search engine and the Reference of
> TFile doesn't contain any info about it.
> 
> Regard,
> Thomas.
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