On Sep 23, 2007, at 1:17 , Matthew Fulmer wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:08:39PM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
>> What "2GB file-addressability" limit are you referring to? There  
>> is no
>> such thing. Files have been 64 bit for a couple of years now so  
>> unless
>> you run some really, really old VMs that limit doesn't exists.
>
> So, does that mean that the .changes file collapse in 3.9 was
> unnecessary? I thought this limit was the cause of the
> compresssed sources in 3.9.

Not at all. That's a problem of how source file pointers are  
represented in the image, not how large a file can be.

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