[vdr] Re: Max. Filesize

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Philip Lawatsch wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > Boris Lenzinger wrote:
> >
> >>...
> >>So you can set a larger value if your /video folder (or whatever) lies
> >>on a filesystem that supports files larger than 2G else don't do it ;)
> >
> >
> > I strongly advise against this!
> > VDR is _NOT_ designed to handle files larger than 2GB.
> 
> Would you accept a patch doing the following:
> 
> .) Defining file_offset_bits to 64 which will lead to all of the
> "normal" file operations use 64 bit io
> 
> .) change all the integer references for file offsets to fpos_t and alike?
> 
> Afair this is all that has to be done.
> 
> If you would accept it I'd go and patch vdr.

We had this discussion several times before.
I'd like to keep it the way it is.

Klaus