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SubjectRe: VFS 64-bit clean
On %M %N, owner-linux-kernel-digest@vger.rutgers.edu said:
> Subject: Re: VFS 64-bit clean? Not yet (was Re: large-file-system)
>
> >> OK, this is getting silly.
> >>
> >> Places that have space for such huge files can afford to hire
> >> a team of developers, buy source for any Unix they want, etc.
> >
For what its worth...

I worked somewhere that frequently had file sizes between 1GB and 10GB.
Usually those files could stay on the alpha's OSF but occasionally we
needed to get those files onto a non-alpha machine. Solaris X86 couldn't
handle it and neither could linux, so we were forced to use NT. There
was a lot of corporate resistance to linux which would have melted
if we could have shown that linux could step in and fill that need
without a 10k license.

We did have a development team but they were busy writing software for
the business; hacking solaris or linux filesystems would have been
a tough cost to justify!

Matt

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