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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:26:38 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Peter J. Braam" <braam@clusterfs.com>
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Subject: Re: BIG files & file systems
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:16:20PM -0600, Peter J. Braam wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I've just been told that some "limitations" of the following kind will
> remain:
>   page index = unsigned long
>   ino_t      = unsigned long
> 
> Lustre has definitely been asked to support much larger files than
> 16TB.  Also file systems with a trillion files have been requested by
> one of our supporters (you don't want to know who, besides I've no
> idea how many bits go in a trillion, but it's more than 32).

What about using 64bit machines? ..

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