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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> My personal suspicion is that we'll want to have a 64-bit index file some 
> day, and THAT is worthy of a format change. That day is not now, btw. It's 
> probably not even very close. Even the mozilla repo that was pushing the 
> limit was only doing so until it was optimized better, and now it's 
> apparently nowhere _near_ that limit.
>
> But even then, we might well want to update _just_ the index file format.

We've tried this already, and I shelved the patch for 64-index
for now due to exactly the same reasoning as yours (and it would
have conflicted heavily with Shawn's windowed-mmap() patch).  It
involved updating just the index file format, so you are right
on both counts.

But you are always right anyway, so it may not be a news at all
;-).