Why not use a double on machines which support a double in hardware?
>
> The maximum filesize at EXT2 (at the moment) is 4GB, and that
> is available at Alpha systems, not at i*86 architecture.
> We have known ways to add 16 bits to the length in the i-node,
> so that is not end of road for the filesystem (but wait for
> 2.3 ..)
>
> Filesystem maximum sizes have been in terabyte range for quite
> a while in all platforms.
>
> Some syscalls need to have new versions of them with large
> offset (64-bit) fields. That waits for 2.3.
>
> > Steve
>
> /Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>
>
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