I can understand your side, but on the other hand... I'm sure there are a lot of (sub)systems even today that just can't have objects larger than 4096 bytes. Al

I can understand your side, but on the other hand... I'm sure there are a lot of (sub)systems even today that just can't have objects larger than 4096 bytes. Also has 4096 bytes ever been restricting to you? I once heard from someone doing evil things and hitting NAME_MAX, but there is no problem just treating that rare case as some sort of I/O error. Everything IO can always fail anyway.