Re: Large File support and blocks.

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 13:08:05 EDT

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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 

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