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Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion.

From: Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Subject: Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion.
Date: 08 Dec 2002 17:05:57 -0800
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Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> The reason for the limit is because the address space on IA32 architecture
> is 32 bit.  

The memory size must actually be limited on all architectures, because
the interfaces are supposed to be machine independent, which requires
the word size of the relevant parameters to be constant.
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