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	Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Subject: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.
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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.