On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:29:07AM +0100, aaron wrote:

> Hm, ok the FAQ, but....
> recently - as seen on the well known mailing lists - there was a post
> that 48bit addressing is now available. If I understood it correctly this
> should give you (at least!) 2^48 = 256 TBytes.
> 
> But I myself would like to know if this calculation is correct.
> (or is it 2^48 blocks?)

Device size != Partition size != Filesystem size != File size

48-bit addressing is for addressing raw disk blocks on the device.

Kris

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