This is Just a curious question I had about 64 bit int.

Kirt

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I can't find a general section or anything of the Sort to post in so I will here. With the max 64 bit int being 9223372036854775807 and servers growing ever bigger will we have to improve to 128 bit OSses because servers are storing more than 9223372036854775807 individual files?
 
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I don't believe increasing the maximum number of files requires longer numbers - it's really only RAM that's directly affected by the CPU word length.

NTFS currently supports approx 2^32 files, and I haven't heard of anyone having issues with that. Other file systems support far more, such as ZFS, with 2^48.
I don't believe increasing the maximum number of files requires longer numbers - it's really only RAM that's directly affected by the CPU word length.

NTFS currently supports approx 2^32 files, and I haven't heard of anyone having issues with that. Other file systems support far more, such as ZFS, with 2^48.
 
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