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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Sam wrote:
> Call me crazy, but does anyone else see this as hooey?  2^64 512B
> sectors is 8192 zettabytes (zetta, exa, peta, tera, ...).
[...]
> Crappy marketing articles.

This one's good though. fortune(6) worthy, I mean:

Populating 128-bit file systems would exceed the quantum limits of
earth-based storage. You couldn't fill a 128-bit storage pool without
boiling the oceans.


Bye,
	Andrea

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