On 5/22/06, Tomas Puverle <Tomas.Puverle@morganstanley.com> wrote: ...
There are filesystems out there that support 128 bits for file sizes. So I think there needs to be a more general solution.
Totally agree about more general solution. That does not change anything, but just out of curiosity some calculations were made: the number of atoms in the graphite of a pencil is < 2^72, http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/oct98/905633072.As.r.html so the storage providing capacity to hold files with 128-bit offset would have to contain at least as many atoms as 8*2^56 = 2^59 pencil leads ! Hundreds of tons of material that should be. And this is with just 1 atom per bit of information. Seems a bit too much for any conceivable technology... What FS would need to provide support for such capacities ? -- Svyatoslav Trukhanov, Oleksii Ursulenko