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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <43sing$hfl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <439rdd$mjk@excalibur.edge.net> <43bnfs$nco@reason.cdrom.com> <justinzn8kz8jgn8gm@plinth.vide.coventry.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. ;-)