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Date:      Sat, 1 Apr 1995 23:19:59 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com
Cc:        bugs@ns1.win.net, gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.org, tom@haven.uniserve.com
Subject:   Re: 4 gig st15150n disk setups
Message-ID:  <199504011319.XAA10905@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> Some but not all bugs involving >=2GB file systems have been fixed.  E.g.,
>> the clustering code silently botches single files >=2GB, and mmap()

>Are we talking file sizes or file system sizes?

>> silently botches offsets >=4GB.  I don't know of any problem for normally
>> sized files but wouldn't trust file systems >=2GB.

>I've been running on one 4GB and on 8.6GB pretty _heavily_ with no problems
>whatsoever for a few weeks now!

Both.  I don't trust any software that doesn't check for overflow.

Bruce



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