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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD dedicated NFS server
Date: 21 Sep 1995 22:42:24 +0200
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Justin Murdock <justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> "Jordan" == Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>
>Jordan> Theoretically any number of hard drives, max filesystem size
>Jordan> is 2^63,
>
>bits, bytes, blocks or what? If its bits, does this mean that FreeBSD
>can only cope with one Exabyte?

Huh?

j@uriah 467% bc
bc 1.02 (Mar 3, 92) Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'. 
2^63/8
1152921504606846976
(2^63/8)/(1024*1024*1024)
1073741824

You really mean one Exabyte would store more than 1e9 _giga_bytes???

Anyway, it's bytes.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)