Large File Problems in Modern Unices

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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that's not a good question

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Don't moderate up ignorance.

That's whining... But I see his point--the only reason right now is for video files. If you want to get your video from your camcorder, it's not going to go straight to CDRW or DVD, it's going to your HARD DRIVE storage. You are going to edit it, right?
Since you probably want to have the best quality, a single file will take a lot of space. (No I don't do this video thing, but I did my own research. Many people do have video, and for computer editing there is no reason to cap a file size.)

Ok fine, I guess he kind of has a point in that question....

huh?

[inviagrated_amnesiac]

wtf kind of sentence construction is this:

"It's an interesting look into some of the kinds of less obvious problems that distro-compilers have to face."

Why not:

"It is an interesting problem that some distro-compilers have to face."