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Date:      Sat, 1 Apr 1995 22:07:45 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, tom@haven.uniserve.com
Cc:        bugs@ns1.win.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: 4 gig st15150n disk setups
Message-ID:  <199504011207.WAA08014@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>What Jordan meant was that you can have large FS's now (up to 1 terrabyte
>if I remember back to what David Greenman said). Apparently WC's news server
>has 1 8.4Gb filesystem on one of it's drives... (and it's a FreeBSD box 2.x)

Some but not all bugs involving >=2GB file systems have been fixed.  E.g.,
the clustering code silently botches single files >=2GB, and mmap()
silently botches offsets >=4GB.  I don't know of any problem for normally
sized files but wouldn't trust file systems >=2GB.

Bruce



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