Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Nov 1997 13:30:09 -0700 (MST) | From | teunis <> | Subject | Re: Filesize limitation |
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Just this guy you know wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Andre Uratsuka Manoel wrote: > > > That is no excuse for badly written software, of course. > > But the 2 GB limit looks a lot like the 640KB limit. When the 640KB > > limit was created by IBM, it was hard to think of applications > > that could use all that memory. But they came. > > > > More like the old DOS 32M limit. > > Why don't you just hack Ext2fs to use 128 bits (really_long ints?) and be > done with it? I doubt you could find enough DASD on the planet to make > that much storage...
"128bits should be enough for anyone" :) Any thoughts on a bit-scalable-filesystem? I'm not sure how to code such a beast but it should be possible :)
And if coded right it should be equivalent to ext2 under normal circumstances.... *grin*
G'day, eh? :) - Teunis
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