<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave</b> <<a href="mailto:osm.list@randomjunk.co.uk">osm.list@randomjunk.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q">On 04/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Earl</b> <<a href="mailto:david@frankieandshadow.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">david@frankieandshadow.com</a>
> wrote:</span><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Perhaps someone has already thought about this, but I notice that the<br>planet.osm file is 3.5Gb at the moment, so it won't be very long before it<br>reaches the 4Gb file size limit typical of many disks (e.g. FAT32 -
i.e.<br>most USB hard disks) and things like compression programs will start to blow<br>up too (can bz2 files cope with a file > 4Gb?).</blockquote></span><div><br><br>Yeah, bzip2 can cope.<br>As can ntfs, ext3, xfs, and reiserfs.
<br><br>I think most people doing development/processing using the planet are not going to be using fat32.<br>Personally I'd not bother wasting my time unless somebody actually starts to complain.<br><br>If people are after a smaller chunk then they'll download one of the excerpts people are generating. Splitting the file will just cause a headache like having to cat them all together before plugging them into tools expecting only one file.
<br>I doubt any tools which are designed to work with the planet will be broken by a 4GB barrier.</div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>I'll agree with this. <tongue in cheek>We can always ask the first person to complain that its not working on their machine to write a script.</tongue in cheek> ;)
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