Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 14:05:31 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: couple of questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980804135200.25224A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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Hi guys, A week or so ago Slashdot posted a link to an OS Comparison chart - FreeBSD was missing so I emailed the author of the page and offered to get the FreeBSD info to add to the chart and he thought that would be great. I've dug through the mailing lists/FAQ/handbook and have gotten just about everything answered but a couple of technical questions remain and I was hoping that some of the hackers could answer them! :-) These questions concern the 2.2.7 release. You can see the chart at: http://www.xunil.com/xunil/oschart.html - maximum file/partition size: - I've seen files (from an ls -l emailed to me) of ~ 7 GB, but I'm not sure what the absolute maximum file size is. Is there a hard limit? - digging through the -current mailing list archive I found a note from John Dyson saying the maximum partition size was 512 GB. Is this still true (the note was from 97) and if so does it also apply to 2.2.7? - swap partitions - what's the maximum swap partition size? I seem to recall reading on -current about someone w/ a 1 GB swap partition, but my memory has been known to be faulty. - what's the maximum number of swap partitions you can have? - multi-disk file systems - in the chart he references Caldera having "md" - I'm not sure what this is. Any ideas? My interpretation was say /usr on 1 disk, /tmp on another or something, but I'm still waiting for an answer. If it helps he has "volume sets" listed under NT and ODM under SCO Unixware Thanks for any help in advance! Brett ************************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ "The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart." - Iris Murdoch, "The Red and the Green" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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