From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 7 12:36:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from netbank.com.br (garrincha.netbank.com.br [200.203.199.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B7E237B405 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 12:36:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from 1-096.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br (1-096.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br [200.181.137.96]) by netbank.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF8C46813; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 18:36:02 -0200 (BRDT) Received: (from localhost user: 'riel', uid#500) by imladris.surriel.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 18:35:50 -0200 Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 18:35:50 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Simon Dick Cc: Subject: Re: Some FreeBSD publicity In-Reply-To: <20011107193551.B1158@irrelevant.org> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Simon Dick wrote: > It may only be The Register, but some publicity is better than none :) > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/22693.html > > (it's an updated article where they said Linux was the first OS to > get support for up to 128 petabyte files (PB? :) ... which isn't true, Linux also still has the 2TB block device size limit ;) What the article _should_ have written is that Linux just got support for IDE hard drives of up to 128 petabytes, because Andre Hedrik put together the driver ... cheers, Rik -- DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message