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On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:12:16AM -0400, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
> Where on earth would you find a disk system that can store 2^64 bytes of
> data or larger, anyway?  Don't physical and technological limitations
> limit the total capacity of even the largest hard drives now available?
> It would take millions of drives, or more, to create a single 2^64 byte
> logical drive.

You can bet that somebody, somewhere, needs this right now. And someone
will definitely need it in the next 5-10 years.

BMS