[ILUG] Really Big files in Linux

[Padraig Brady]

This is just in the IDE drivers (now 48bit).
However there are many more restrictions to file(system)
sizes, in the kernel/libs/apps. Here's an interesting graph:

http://www.cs.uml.edu/~acahalan/linux/ext2.gif

Padraig.

oconnoat wrote:

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/22693.html
> 
> hmmm... 2^57 bytes, a quote "big arse number".
> 
> I guess that *could* be useful at some point.
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