Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Nov 1997 20:46:10 -0700 (MST) | From | teunis <> | Subject | Re: Filesize limitation |
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On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Chel van Gennip wrote:
> "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> wrote: > >Chel van Gennip writes: > > > >> I think there is a real need for files > 2GB. > > > >Linux will support such files when the _is_ a real need. > >Over the years, I've seen less than a dozen people complain. > >As for myself, 2 GB would be an acceptable hard disk limit. > > > > I think the time is about now. Unit capacity doubles every 2 years, > the size for a 3.5" disk is now 20GB.
Just to comment: According to the newsheets, earlier this year a number of harddrive manufacturers made a breakthrough in drive technology. The result of this breakthrough was to increase potential space on a hard drive tenfold : ie 20-100 gigs.... The additional detail was : with no additional cost on construction....
I have a feeling that the only thing keeping 20-50Gig drives from being common is the ~8gig limit on EIDE drives....
G'day, eh? :) - Teunis
[this implies it's already too late - we should have had a 64-bit filesystem this summer.... :]
(oh - and we'd make some of the database people very happy... :)
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