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Large File Problems in Modern Unices

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-deal-with dept.

david-currie writes "Freshmeat is running an article that talks about the problems with the support for large files under some operating systems, and possible ways of dealing with these problems. It's an interesting look into some of the kinds of less obvious problems that distro-compilers have to face."

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  1. Re:Why large files by mr.henry · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who needs more than 512k of RAM??

  2. Re:Why large files by Big+Mark · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on. Even Bill Gates admitted that half a meg ain't enough.

    640K, on the other hand, should be enough for anyone...

    -Mark

  3. 640 K ought to be enough for anybody by cyber_rigger · · Score: 3, Funny

    --Bill Gates

  4. A woman's perspective . . . by pariahdecss · · Score: 5, Funny

    So my wife says to me, "Honey, do I look fat in this filesystem ?"
    I replied, "Sweetie, I married you for your trust fund not your cluster size."

  5. Switch to gnu/hurd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It has a nice small 1gb filesystem limit. I have partitioned my hard disk in to 64 little chunks and it runs very slowly, and unstabilly, but its completley open source and im happy.

  6. Re:Wrong point of view. by heby · · Score: 5, Funny

    "oh yes, those were the days." - misty eyed smile - "when i was young and filesizes were small. you should have seen it. today's youth is so spoiled that they don't even learn assembly language any more. i tell you, you're all going to die because of your large files, yes, die!" - madly waves his cane in the air - "2gb, that's more than anybody will ever need and you are greedy for even more! the holy bit will punish you for this, it will!" - dies of a heart attack.

  7. Its not the size of the file... by bananaape · · Score: 1, Funny

    Its how you use it.

  8. Re:Have you ever seen some people's email? by nentwined · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree with MS on this one. government employees shouldn't be allowed to hold their positions for longer than a year. DOWN WITH GOVERNMENTAL CORRUPTION! ... :)

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    heaven
  9. Re:video, mp3's, even dvds are beyond 2gb by bns_robson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your link doesn't work. I get a DNS failure loking up host 578.291.762.662

  10. Re:Not really that groundbreaking... by statusbar · · Score: 2, Funny

    2^64 = 17,179,869,184 gigabytes!

    17,179,869,184 gigabytes ought to be enough for ANYBODY!

    --jeff++

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    ipv6 is my vpn
  11. Re:Have you ever seen some people's email? by kasperd · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do not make jokes about that - it's actually quite true.

    Guess what..... I wasn't joking.

    I just reply and request the information in an open format.

    So do I. Sometimes I send the reply in a .dvi file. I got a surprise the day a friend of mine managed to read the .dvi file I had attached.

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    Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?