Re: [ROOT] Large file support

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2003 - 09:18:33 MEST


Hi Karl,

see http://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/TTree.html#TTree:ChangeFile

The maximum file size is still 2 Gbytes.

Rene Brun

karl hauschild wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to create files greater than the current 2 GB
> restriction.
> 
> I found this an old mail related to root files > 2 GB from
> Norbert Danneberg "Large Files" and the reply from Rene which
> dates from Thu Jul 29 1999.
> 
> In it is stated that
> "One of the TFile data members fUnits describe the number of bytes for
> the pointers in the file. Currently fUnits=4. Setting fUnits to 8 to get
> 64 bits pointers requires a few more changes (typedef for Seek_t in
> particular)."
> 
> Has anyone performed these changes ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Karl



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