On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 02:55:12PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> There was a scary discussion on port-vax a few days ago regarding the
> workingness of filesystems larger than 4 GB in NetBSD 1.6.  Some people
> experienced problems even without using softdeps (which I avoid, being
> more tortoise than hare, more ant than grasshopper).  
> 
> I have a 1.4.2 system that I'm looking forward to bringing into the 21st
> century, possibly even -current.  But hints of broken filesystems give me
> the, uh, chills, particularly since I have two 10 GB partitions.  
> 
> Rather than starting a rumor or (not) acting on one, I'd like to ask:  Is
> there any known problem with big ffs filesystems?  I checked the buglist
> for kern; nothing says so.  

I guess almost anyone use filesystems larger than 4G these days :)
This is likely a vax-specific problem.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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