Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:40:52 +0100 (MET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: VFS 64-bit clean? Not yet (was Re: large-file-system) |
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On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Practical solutions satisfy everyone stuck using 32-bit hardware. > I'm sure the weather service is using Alphas and I'm sure that > demanding Linux users will have 64-bit Intel hardware in 3 years. > > That is the real need of course: last until we have 64-bit CPUs. > By the time 1 TB limits are a problem, the limit will be gone.
But once we have the 64-bit machine, we'd like to have the filesystem adapted too. As it is now, ext2 still is 32-bit and not likely to change, which is just as well, since the FFS solution probably won't scale well to 64 bit size...
The effort should probably directed at developing a suitable filesystem. The in-core structures will automatically scale with the size of the integers.
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