From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 5 9:24:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72C4E37B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:24:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 13460 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Mar 2001 17:24:24 +0000 (GMT) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes? From: sthaug@nethelp.no X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 18:24:24 +0100 Message-ID: <13458.983813064@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to the "Maxtor picks Windows, dumps open source" article at http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5009496.html?tag=lh FreeBSD "did not support large file sizes, Macintosh and newer Novell file systems, or backup and management software from companies such as OpenView, Tivoli and Microsoft". Now I can understand what they say about missing Tivoli support - we're using Tivoli backup here ourselves, and the SCO ADSM/TSM client that we currently use to backup FreeBSD is passable, but nothing more. A native FreeBSD client would be much preferable. What I can't understand is the reference to missing support for large file sizes - as far as I know, that's one of FreeBSD's strengths! Anybody care to guess what they mean here? Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message