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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:43:38 +0200
From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Andrea Campi <andrea+freebsd_hackers@webcom.it>
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:26:39PM +0200, Andrea Campi wrote..
> 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.

Hmmmm... that explains the global warming then...

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org