Subject: Re: Partitions >2GB disk on 1.0?
To: None <kadokev@msg.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/07/1995 21:53:40
On Thu, 7 Sep 1995 22:15:57 -0500 (CDT)
kadokev@rci.ripco.com (Kevin Kadow) wrote:
> TMK, You can't have a single filesystem greater than 2.0Gb, though the support
> for combined filesystems might provide a way around this. The problem is
> the type of variable used for the offset of seek operations.
Yes, the size of the file offset is a limiting factor ... but, under
NetBSD, it's 64-bits, so > 2gb filesystems are indeed possible.
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