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   From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
   Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 04:36:15 +0400

   And you would cripple the 99% usage to aid those users who move disk 
   drives physically over to a sparc box AND have more than 31k links to a 
   file?

This is not a sparc or a x86 or x86_64 or ia64 thing.

It's a global thing.

It's about being portable and clean and not installing unnecessary
restrictions.