From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 21 08:14:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA22099 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 May 1995 08:14:07 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA22093 for ; Sun, 21 May 1995 08:14:04 -0700 Received: from masi.ibp.fr (root@masi.ibp.fr [132.227.60.23]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id RAA03427 ; Sun, 21 May 1995 17:13:39 +0200 Received: from hebe.ibp.fr (hebe.ibp.fr [132.227.64.34]) by masi.ibp.fr (8.6.11/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id RAA26506 ; Sun, 21 May 1995 17:12:00 +0200 From: Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) Received: by hebe.ibp.fr (8.6.10/jtpda-5.0) id RAA10874 ; Sun, 21 May 1995 17:10:40 +0200 Message-Id: <199505211510.RAA10874@hebe.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: 4gig drive for $1099 To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 17:10:39 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@ns1.win.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at May 21, 95 01:12:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 809 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? 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