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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Big Disk under FreeBSD????
Date: 23 Sep 1995 03:34:04 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) wrote:
] As a matter of fact, Linux does support more than 2 GB/per FS. It has for a
] long time now.
Yes. This is a DOS limitation based on a 32k cluster size and
24 bit start/end values (asumming drive translation: less without).
On the other hand, there is still an 8G offset limit based on
Linux's use of DOS partitioning limits on sector ranges (which is
still 24 bits because of DOS).
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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