From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 5 17: 8:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.viasoft.com.cn (unknown [61.153.1.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D296937B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:08:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsddiy@21cn.com) Received: from William ([192.168.1.98]) by mail.viasoft.com.cn (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA04559; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:04:16 +0800 Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:13:23 +0800 From: David Xu X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.48f) Personal Reply-To: David Xu Organization: Viasoft X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <522302651.20010306091323@21cn.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes? In-reply-To: <13458.983813064@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <13458.983813064@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello sthaug, Tuesday, March 06, 2001, 1:24:24 AM, you wrote: snn> According to the "Maxtor picks Windows, dumps open source" article at snn> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5009496.html?tag=lh snn> FreeBSD "did not support large file sizes, Macintosh and newer Novell snn> file systems, or backup and management software from companies such as snn> OpenView, Tivoli and Microsoft". snn> Now I can understand what they say about missing Tivoli support - we're snn> using Tivoli backup here ourselves, and the SCO ADSM/TSM client that we snn> currently use to backup FreeBSD is passable, but nothing more. A native snn> FreeBSD client would be much preferable. snn> What I can't understand is the reference to missing support for large snn> file sizes - as far as I know, that's one of FreeBSD's strengths! Anybody snn> care to guess what they mean here? snn> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no snn> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org snn> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message this is a stupid decision, let they go. AFAIK, Windows 2000 does not support dump file system to tape or other medias. I was a Windows NT system manager, I know I don't believe all backup softwares for Windows NT, simply because Windows NT system can not be fully backuped. FreeBSD can do, it's strength of Unix File System. -- Best regards, David Xu mailto:bsddiy@21cn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message