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SubjectRe: BIG files & file systems
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:16:20PM -0600, Peter J. Braam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just been told that some "limitations" of the following kind will
> remain:
> page index = unsigned long
> ino_t = unsigned long
>
> Lustre has definitely been asked to support much larger files than
> 16TB. Also file systems with a trillion files have been requested by
> one of our supporters (you don't want to know who, besides I've no
> idea how many bits go in a trillion, but it's more than 32).

What about using 64bit machines? ..

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