Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 17:10:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Cc: bugs@ns1.win.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4gig drive for $1099 Message-ID: <199505211510.RAA10874@hebe.ibp.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950521131109.15569M-100000@leo> from "Brian Tao" at May 21, 95 01:12:19 pm
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> > 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?
The Linux VFS uses 64-bits offsets, but none of the Linux filesystems
supports 2GB+ files yet. The maximal Ext2fs size is 4 TB though.
> --
> Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
> taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
>
>
Remy
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