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> Speaking of filesystems, does anyone know about works done on very
> large (disk) filesystems?  By "large", I'm talking in the range of
> 100GB - 5TB.
> 
> I know that FFS will have some problems once we go over about 200GB
> (multi-hour fsck being one).  But all we can find are studies on
> tape-based systems (how to migrate stuff to/from disk, etc.)...

Contact Matt Day about soft updates, which are running under Windows 95
in the cubilcle next to mine (mday@elbereth.org).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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