Subject: Re: mosaic problem
To: Daniel Senderowicz <daniel@synchrods.synchrods.COM>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/18/2000 11:41:23
In message <10001181808.AA03808@synchrods.synchrods.COM>,
Daniel Senderowicz writes:

>Essentially what you're saying is that there is a limit of 2^32
>in the size of each filesystem that NetBSD can handle, right?
>So if I build smaller file systems to handle problems like
>this, is there any other limitations that I should be aware of?

Nope.  He's saying exactly the opposite.  NetBSD has no such limit (it
can handle filesystems up to terabytes), but Mosaic doesn't know
that. It sounds like Mosaic only uses a 32-bit variable for free disk
space, and that variable overflows at 2gig.