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bhaneytoday at 10:03 PM0 repliesview on HN

> Directories can have up to 248 (256 trillion) entries

It took me a minute to figure out that this was supposed to be 2^48, but even then that's ~281 trillion. What a weird time for the tera/tibi binary prefix confusion to show up, when there aren't even any units being used.