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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com>
Cc: Neil Talsania <neil.talsania@kodak.com>, tiff@olympiakos.com
Subject: Re: Largest file size in TIFF
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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.
> 
> Best regards,
> 

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)

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de

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