Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 1 Sep 2000 14:08:05 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Large File support and blocks. |
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On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > With all the talk about bugs and slowness on a 386/486/586 -- does anyone > > think those platforms will have multi-T disks hooked up to them? > > Yes. The poor handling of 64bit numbers hasnt gone away on > PentiumII or Athlon as far as I can tell
41-bit filesize should be enough for the 32-bit machines.
By the time people start using >41-bit files, don't you think they'll have an AMD-64, PPC or Merced CPU to handle the bigger file sizes?
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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