Re: VFS 64-bit clean?

Richard Henderson (rth@dot.cygnus.com)
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 17:17:32 -0800


On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 11:21:58AM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> It is not short-sightedness. The limit disappears on 64-bit hardware,
> which will happen long before those 12 years are past. In 12 years,
> the $300 PC will be 64-bit.

Just so long as the on-disk structures allow all 64-bits to be
recorded, its fine by me if you use less on intel in memory.

> Performance _today_ really matters. Since terabyte-size files are
> large enough and can be fast, signed sector numbers are good.

And along those lines I'd rather not pay the price of the scaling
on my Alpha.

r~

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