[Gdal-dev] Any advances in getting LFS under cygwin/windows?

Simon Perkins sy at perkins.net
Sat Sep 9 10:23:26 EDT 2006




> On 9/8/06, Jonathan Greenberg <jgreenberg at arc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>> I was just checking in to see if anyone had managed to get large file
>> support working for gdal under cygwin/windows?  Although cygwin 
>> claims LFS
>> for NTFS, as of 6 months ago we couldn't get GDAL to read large files 
>> beyond
>> the 2gb (or is it 4gb) threshold...

What format are you using? Note that some formats, e.g. TIFF, have 2 or 
4GB size limits independent of the file system / OS.

Sy





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