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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] seek() in fossil?
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:29:38 +0000
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rob pike, esq. wrote:
> Do you know how big 2^64 is?  It's not twice as big as a gigabyte.
> Let's say we had a gigabit ethernet and we wanted to write a 2^64
> byte file.  It would take more than a thousand years.

But we're talking about addresses; the data could be sparse.