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Bug 43963 - The way to deal with FS limitations should be documented in the specs.
The way to deal with FS limitations should be documented in the specs.
Status: NEW
Product: openZIM
Classification: Unclassified
zimlib (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Kelson [Emmanuel Engelhart]
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Reported: 2013-01-14 18:10 UTC by Kelson [Emmanuel Engelhart]
Modified: 2013-02-13 20:15 UTC (History)
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Description Kelson [Emmanuel Engelhart] 2013-01-14 18:10:24 UTC 
Many FS (file systems) do not allow to deal with big files. For example FAT32 (the mostly used FS on USB sticks) is limited to 4GB. We have unfortunately a lots of ZIM files which are bigger than that.

The way the zimlib deals with that limitation is to allow to split ZIM files in smaller chunks like the UNIX tool does. But, this is not documented in the ZIM Specs., so another implementation might choose an other approach.

To avoid incompatibility between ZIM readers and ZIM files, we should document that too in the ZIM file format specification.
Comment 1 Kelson [Emmanuel Engelhart] 2013-02-13 20:15:05 UTC 
Will try to fix that ASAP...
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