1999.11.29 14:21 "2-4 GB TIFF Files", by Frank Warmerdam

Folks,

On behalf of a client I am looking into generation of TIFF files in the 2-4GB range. My first shock was to find that ext2fs on Linux doesn't support files larger than 2GB. My second shock was to find that the toff_t type in tiffio.h (used for seeking for instance) is int32, a signed 32 bit integer, not unsigned as I would have assumed.

While TIFF format is clearly limited to at most 4GB in a file, I had assumed producing and consuming files in the 2-4GB range would not be particularly difficult. Has anyone done this with libtiff? Were changes to libtiff required?

Best regards,

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