On Thursday 13 May 2004 11:15, Martijn Tonies wrote:

> > The largest possible file size with 64 bit file i/o is 8EB, but I
> > doubt
>
> What's an "EB"?
>

ExoByte

> > that you will hit this limit.
>
> ... "without running into other problems first...".
>
> A backup/restore cycle could take some time :-)
>

Considering an ExoByte is 1,024 PetaBytes, which themselves are 1,024
TeraBytes I would have thought that finding a big enough hard disc might
be the first hurdle.


(Hopefully I've got the distinction between Byte and byte right.)




Paul
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