Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:08:55 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: VFS 64-bit clean |
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Hi!
> There has been general enthusiasm for a "new" filesystem, but not > necessarily consensus on what the new features should contain. > > For example, just to take the simplest example: when people say that > they want 64 bit support, do they mean: > > * support for sparse files greater than 2GB? > * support for files which contain greater than 2**42 bytes of > data
This one would be sufficient.
> * support for large files that can be mmap'ed, or just read?
Reading is enough. Usually, noone tries to mmap such files. (I know, it gets a bit messy...)
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