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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
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