Re: BIG files & file systems

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:16:20PM -0600, Peter J. Braam wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I've just been told that some "limitations" of the following kind will
> remain:
>   page index = unsigned long
>   ino_t      = unsigned long
> 
> Lustre has definitely been asked to support much larger files than
> 16TB.  Also file systems with a trillion files have been requested by
> one of our supporters (you don't want to know who, besides I've no
> idea how many bits go in a trillion, but it's more than 32).

What about using 64bit machines? ..