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Subject: Re: MAX Filesystem size
To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:38:49 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: terry@lambert.org, stacy@server-001.ey.ca, hackers@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199606112047.PAA16634@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jun 11, 96 03:47:16 pm
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As Joe Greco wrote...

> This suggests that you could create a 128GB array out of conventional 4GB
> disks, or a 736GB array out of the new Elite 23GB drives..

Hmm, supposedly we'll get 8-9 Gb 3.5" drives at work. That would give me
a 14*(8 or 9) Gb max 'disk' on our raid arrays. I sure plan to test a
pre-2.2 to see what happens ;-)

I'm afraid we won't get 14 23Gb disks (a few maybe, but not 14) :)

Wilko
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