State of the 64bit?

[Tom Browder]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 17:16, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
...
> Nope, not large-file support but large memory support. The enterprise
> kernel would allow you to use more than 4G of RAM. Large file support
> was always there when it became available. Like when XFS, a 64-bit
> filesystem, was added to 2.4 well before the AMD Hammer was released
> although the 32-bitness did limit the largest file possible from 8 EB to
> 16TB. The definition of 'Large file support' however is support for
> files larger than 2GB regardless of maximum possible size.

Thanks for setting the record straight, Christopher.

Best regards,

-Tom

Thomas M. Browder, Jr.
Niceville, Florida
USA