Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 11:40:13 -0500 From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD is running out of time Message-ID: <199904011659.LAA24524@geek.grf.ov.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990401102930.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <199903311559.KAA27202@geek.grf.ov.com>
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I just assumed that once we made a change to something as fundamental as the architecture's word size that everything else built upon that (including the filesystem structures) would follow suit. In other words, I wasn't expecting that backward compatibility would be paramount after going 64-bit. K.S. At 07:59 PM 3/31/99 , Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >On 31-Mar-99 The Classiest Man Alive wrote: >> Not pretending to understand all of the issues, but won't this be rendered >> moot on a 64-bit architecture? Do we still expect people to be running > >Have a think about it.. > >The structures on disk are fixed in size regardless of your hardware (how could >it be any other way?) > >--- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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