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Ext3 for large filesystems

Ext3 for large filesystems

Posted Mar 20, 2007 16:35 UTC (Tue) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: Ext3 for large filesystems by BrucePerens
Parent article: Ext3 for large filesystems

It still amazes me that a single desktop icon on a modern computer takes up about as much RAM as an entire video game console had back in the 80s.

64MB in the early 80s? Those must have cost a pretty penny. I remember 5MB and 10MB disks costing several hundred dollars.


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