In article <3946EA34.A4C0D047@peak.edu.ee> , Margus Ramst 
<mar### [at] peakeduee>  wrote:

>> But on some OSes (like Windows) your image would be limited by the
>> filesystem.
>>
>
> I don't understand. What is the limiting factor? (besides FAT 16 maximum
> partition size)

There are still a lot of filesystems that have a 2 GB or 4 GB file size
limit.  Additionally, a lot of applications make assumptions about certain
system file IO functions, i.e. when seeking inside a file and using long or
unsigned long (which is most likely 32 bit on common platforms today).


    Thorsten


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