From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 21 03:30:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA11381 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 03:30:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA11374 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 03:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id NAA14643; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 13:29:43 +0300 (IDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma014641; Thu Aug 21 13:29:21 1997 Message-ID: <33FC1875.63BE@barcode.co.il> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 13:29:09 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zoltan Sebestyen CC: FreeBSD questions mailinglist Subject: Re: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Zoltan Sebestyen wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm planning to change a PC's OS from WinNT to FreeBSD, which is an > AppleTalk server. My question is that how big drives can the FreeBSD > handle(The drives in question are about 4G's each). > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sebestyen Zoltan It all seems so stupid, > it makes me want to give up. > szoli@caesar.elte.hu But why should I give up, > when it all seems so stupid? I haven't tried it myself, but there are reports of filesystems spanning 100s of GBs across a striped disk array. There shouldn't be any problem with 4GB disks. Nadav