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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