[Elphel-support] Large File Support > 2GB

[Andrey Filippov]

Sebastian,

Yes - that may be so. The reason is that the index of the images for the
file is created in the camera memory and recorded before closing the file.
So the file size made by camogm may be limited by that.

Andrey

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Sebastian Pichelhofer <
sebastian.pichelhofer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think what Johannes means is the camogm "length" limit:
>
> length
>
> length=<file_size_in_bytes>
>
> Specify the maximal size of each individual file segment in bytes. The
> new file will be started if this limit will be exceeded. The limit is
> 2.147.483.647 bytes (~2 GB), current value is reported by
> status/xstatus commands.
>
> Regards Sebastian
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 18:25, Andrey Filippov
> <support-list at support.elphel.com> wrote:
> > Johannes,
> >
> > I am not aware of the 2GB limit, the ext2 file system that camera uses
> when
> > writing to the media supports much larger files.
> >
> > Additionally, if you use camogm for recording video, it is designed to
> start
> > a new file with no frames lost between them. What is your application?
> >
> > Andrey
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Johannes Paiska <jpaiska at googlemail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> is there a short-term possibility to implement the large file support in
> >> linux >2 GB?
> >>
> >> In the era of "high data rate" it would be useful for me and other ;-)
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Johannes
> >>
> >
> >
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