From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 25 17:19:23 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA23884 for current-outgoing; Thu, 25 May 1995 17:19:23 -0700 Received: from sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu [130.245.1.47]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA23878 for ; Thu, 25 May 1995 17:19:22 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA08213; Thu, 25 May 1995 20:18:32 -0400 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA22868; Thu, 25 May 95 18:11:51 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9505260011.AA22868@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: newfs weirdness... To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Thu, 25 May 95 18:11:50 MDT Cc: cs.weber.edu!terry@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu, gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu, FreeBSD.org!current@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu, blaise.ibp.fr!roberto@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu, phk@ref.tfs.com In-Reply-To: <199505252306.JAA11068@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 26, 95 09:06:30 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > It's better because 4096 is larger than the average fake cylinder. (This > will probably change when disks get larger - all disks will have 1024 > heads, 256 sectors and 63 sectors; larger disks will be unstriped and > everyone will complain about the 8GB limit :-]). Maybe on FreeBSD; not on Windows 95. Windows 95 has support for a minimum 64G of disk (using 4k sectors instead of 512 byte sectors). There is further support in the IOS for 64 bit (unsigned) offsets. BTW, I have seen a working 100G SCSI device used on an ICON system (a pretty old 88k box), so the limits aren't inherent there, either (one wonders where the 8G limit in FreeBSD comes from). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.