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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:37:47 +1000
From: Bruce Ellis <brucee@chunder.com>
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i knew the 128 bit registers and instructions in the ps2
would come in handy for something absurd.  actually ZFS
doesn't go close to journalfs where all quantities are
arbitrary length.  i don't intend to add mpseek() in
case i need it, nor mpstat() etc.

brucee

> 2^128 bytes really is vast.  Even 2^64 bytes is an awful lot
> of data.