Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Configuring a Workgroup
Compatibility Between HP-UX Releases 10.x and 11.x
Chapter 4 455
Large File Compatibility
Large files (greater than 2 GB) are supported on HP-UX Releases 10.20
and later. To support large files on your system, you must explicitly
enable a large-files file system. (See “Managing Large Files” on page 654
for more information.)
When working with large files be aware of these issues:
• You cannot perform interactive editing on large files. For example, if
you try to run vi on a large file, the following error message appears:
#vi large_file
"large_file" Value too large to be stored in data
type
• You cannot mail a large file.
• You cannot print a large file.
The following illustrations show how applications interact with large
files on 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.