Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Feb 1998 18:07:19 +0000 | From | Matt Grosso <> | Subject | Re: 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
###################################################################### ## matt.grosso@neterra.com www.neterra.com ## software engineer ######################################################################
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
| |