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SubjectRe: BIG files & file systems
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:04:12PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> It depends on many things:
> - Block layer (unsigned long)
> - Page indexes (unsigned long)

That grows with sizeof(unsigned long) on 64bit machines. And for the
filesystem internals just use one that is designed to be used with that
big storage devices (e.g. jfs or xfs ceratainly not ext2/3 or reiserfs3).

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