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SubjectRe: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)
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David Lang wrote:
|>
|> the word from Informix within the last two weeks re: file sizes on AIX.
|> no DB chunk may be larger then 2GB.
|>
|> if IBM can tolorate this on AIX on their machines it is not a linux killer
|> limit.

Take this the other way: if we get it implemented into Linux, it will
become an AIX killer limit :-)

Ted: I _do_ understand your arguments, but: ext2fs works without b trees,
large directories make it slow but not unusable. The 2GB limit is a hard
one. So please keep it on your to-do list (preferrably at the top of it :).

Just my 0.02 Euro...
Steffen
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