>>>>> "Terry" == Terry Katz <katz@advanced.org> writes: Terry> Does anyone know if there are plans on fixing this? (i know Terry> this is not debian specific, just wondering if anyone knows...) >From what I've read in the past, Linus does not agree on changing this for 32 bits machines. On 64 bits machines, off_t is 64 bits long, allowing you to use large files (up to 2^63-1 bytes). Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@debian.org