From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 20 22:12:41 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA24246 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 May 1995 22:12:41 -0700 Received: from leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.249]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA24240 for ; Sat, 20 May 1995 22:12:38 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA16889; Sun, 21 May 1995 13:12:19 +0800 Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 13:12:19 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Mark Hittinger cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: re: 4gig drive for $1099 In-Reply-To: <199505210144.VAA25243@ns1.win.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This is one of the nice advantages of FreeBSD. Even Cutler, who should > have known better, wound up with 32 bit limits in NTFS. People with > SCO, ect, have got to feel at least a psychological inhibition about > buying 4 gig drives :-). Good point... I'm compiling a list of reasons why FreeBSD makes a better Web server platform than a really pricey machine running Solaris or IRIX or HP/SUX. ;-) Do you know if any of those support 64-bit offsets in their filesystems? How about Linux? -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org