From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 1 9: 0:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from geek.grf.ov.com (geek.grf.ov.com [192.251.86.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F33151B7 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 09:00:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ksmm@threespace.com) Received: from pebbles (pebbles.cam.veritas.com [166.98.49.16]) by geek.grf.ov.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id LAA24524; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 11:59:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199904011659.LAA24524@geek.grf.ov.com> X-Sender: ksmm@mail.cybercom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 11:40:13 -0500 To: "Daniel O'Connor" From: The Classiest Man Alive Subject: Re: FreeBSD is running out of time Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199903311559.KAA27202@geek.grf.ov.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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