[web-heads] Fwd: you gotta love engineers...

[Gene Spafford <spaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Larry Auton <lda@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: January 8, 2006 10:12:29 PM EST

Sun's file system, ZFS, supports 128-bit addresses.  Here's a comment that I found delightful.

   http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0511.2/1989.html

This is my favorite part:

   Basically, as far as I can tell, any device capable of storing 2^256 bits

   would collapse into a black hole under its own weight.