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From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box?
References: <CGD.93Mar23030821@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> <C4D87B.Au3@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Linux box and AmPR node
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 23:15:19 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Mar24.231519.6057@kf8nh.wariat.org>
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In article <C4D87B.Au3@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
>In article <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org writes:
>>There is another thing to consider:
>>386bsd has a stable BSD-FFS and stable networking, while there are bugs in 
>>the Linux efs and in their networking.
>
>	I was under the impression that linux also had something
>	funky about the maximum size of file system partitions.
>	Something like 40 megs?  Or is that old hat?

The original filesystem (type "minix", which tells you where it came from :-)
has a 64MB limit.  There are several filesystems (efs, e2fs, xiafs) that do
not have this limit.

++Brandon
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