Re: [TCLUG:21765] file limit?

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com wrote:
> 
> Yeah, that was a limit of NTFS4.  NTFS5 has no file size
> limitation.  It also adds some other cool features to the mix,
> such as quotas (finally), even more security attributes, the
> encrypted filesystem,

Someone implement compression in ext2! Or reiser! You could save a
crapload of space compressing all those C header files. :)

Or just do it at application level like man pages. Blah.

> what they called Distributed Link
> Tracking - it allows things like shortcuts, etc. to "follow" the
> location of files. (not new, been in the Mac alias for years,
> but still nice to have.), a sort of pseudo-symbolic link
> feature, 

Unix hard link? Doesn't cross filesystems though...

> and sparse file support.

Unix systems pioneered sparse files didn't they? ;)