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SubjectRe: 64-bit block sizes on 32-bit systems
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox writes:
> > people who can afford 2TB of disc can afford to buy a 64-bit processor.
> This whole "64-bit" fallacy has got to stop.

Indeed.

> Now it is "anybody who needs > 2TB disk should use a 64-bit CPU", soon
> to be wrong.

It was already wrong in 1995.

-Dan

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