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Date:      Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:14:07 -0400
From:      Sean Bryant <sean@cyberwang.net>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Subject:   Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.
Message-ID:  <461671CF.6060903@cyberwang.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070406104004.GB1251@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <20070406025700.GB98545@garage.freebsd.pl>	<4615BCA4.7030109@cyberwang.net> <ev50rb$mop$1@sea.gmane.org> <20070406104004.GB1251@garage.freebsd.pl>

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:36:52AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
>   
>> Sean Bryant wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Is it fully 128bit? From wikipedia, which is by no means an authoritative source but I have no idea if this was ever an issue.
>>>       
>> It's 64-bit even in Solaris. The "128-bitness" is only in the storage format, not for file system ops visible to applications.
>>
>> (AFAIK).
>>     
>
> That's correct. We are limited by POSIX, but the on-disk format is
> 128bit.
>
>   
Thanks for the update,
I'll probably update that Wikipedia entry to reflect recent changes and 
more correctly state the limitations.



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