> On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Andre Uratsuka Manoel wrote:
>
> > That is no excuse for badly written software, of course.
> > But the 2 GB limit looks a lot like the 640KB limit. When the 640KB
> > limit was created by IBM, it was hard to think of applications
> > that could use all that memory. But they came.
> >
>
> More like the old DOS 32M limit.
>
> Why don't you just hack Ext2fs to use 128 bits (really_long ints?) and be
> done with it? I doubt you could find enough DASD on the planet to make
> that much storage...
"128bits should be enough for anyone" :)
Any thoughts on a bit-scalable-filesystem?
I'm not sure how to code such a beast but it should be possible :)
And if coded right it should be equivalent to ext2 under normal
circumstances.... *grin*
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis