Re: [LUG] Linux file size

["Paul Sutton" <psutton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Proof the Linux community CAN innovate faster than microsoft,  not to
mention better.
Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Sutton" <psutton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "D&C Lug" <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 10 November 2001 18:35
Subject: [LUG] Linux file size


>
> Hi I just found this on http://www.linux.org/news/bin/news
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> Linux breaks 100-Petabyte ceiling
> Date:  2001-11-07
> Source:  The Register
> Summary:  We almost forgot to mention this, but Linux recently became the
> first desktop OS to support enormously large file sizes. How large?
> 144 Petabytes, or 144,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. A Petabyte is roughly a
> thousand Terabytes, with a Terabyte being roughly a thousand Gigabytes, of
> course.
>
> So what sort of file would be this big.
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