Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:42:35 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103050942061.16541-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <13458.983813064@verdi.nethelp.no>
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Very annoying. And Maxtor also missed that Networker is available for FreeBSD as well. > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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