4MByte limit in IMFS for each file?

[Joel Sherrill]

Thomas Doerfler wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> it's me again :-)
> 
> When I tried out my "fileio" sample, I hit a strange 4MByte
> limit when creating files in the IMFS. I was working on a
> PC386 target with 16MByte of memory (and most of it was always
> available on the heap).
> 
> When I tried to create big files (like 8MB), the write call
> always failed (with a "no space left on device" error),
> directly after reaching a 4MByte file size boundary.
> 
> This limit does not exist on the DOSFS, only when writing to
> the IMFS. I tried it out on a MBX8xx system (with 16MByte of
> RAM) and there I hit the limit also after 4MBytes.
> 
> I was browsing through the IMFS sources and did not find any
> reason for this limitation, and I did not yet run the test
> with a debugger.
> 
> Any hints on that issue?

There is a limit on the number of blocks and the size of each
block is settable in a header file.  See
IMFS_MEMFILE_BYTES_PER_BLOCK and up it from 128 to something
larger.  256 will double the maximum file size.

> wkr,
>         Thomas.
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