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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: attribute/inode caching
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> > I have saved the original correspondence (or you can look it up in the
> > -current list archives, which I suggest you do so that there is no question
> > of me biasing the information) where we originally discussed the vclean
> > interface.  In it, you claimed that device/extent and vnode/extent
> > mapping were irreconcilable because the device/extent mapping would
> > cause a reduction in the mappable region down to 2^31, the max filesize
> > (clearly, 31 pages == 4096/512 + 31 bits of blocks -- the origin of the 39).
> > 
> maxfilesize is in units of bytes, right?

Yes.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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