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Re:Comcast Activates First Users With IPv6 Native Dual Stack... by InclinedPlane on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @01:16AM (#2169278)
Effectively unlimited is better than limited. It turns out that the difficulty of supporting an 18 quintillion large address space is not significantly different from the difficulty of supporting a 4 billion large address space. NTFS5, for example, can support file sizes up to 18 quintillion bytes, and it's a decade old.
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Re:Comcast Activates First Users With IPv6 Native Dual Stack... by pyre on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @01:52AM (#2169383) 

  > NTFS5, for example, can support file sizes up to 18 quintillion
  > bytes, and it's a decade old.
IIRC, NTFS has loads of advanced features, but Microsoft is slowing "turning them on" by adding support for them in Windows. I'm sure Windows would blow up if you got anywhere near that limit.
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