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SubjectRe: VFS 64-bit clean? Not yet (was Re: large-file-system)
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.

Rik.
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