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2002.03.28 16:19 "Re: Largest file size in TIFF", by Christoph Kukulies
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:10:27AM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote: > Neil Talsania wrote: > > I have what is should be a simple question. What is the largest possible > > TIFF file size? > > Neil, > > The largest theoretical size is a few bytes less than 8GB. The image data is > addressed with 32bit unsigned offset and size values so one very large image > could be split into two strips, each slightly less than 4GB long, and the second > startly shortly before the 4GB boundary to ensure 32bit addressability. > > In practice 4GB is the limit. I don't know if that matters here but keep in mind that some operating systems like quite recent Linuxes had a file size limit imposed by the filesystem of 2 GB. (2^31) -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de