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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.gmi.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!spcuna!tzlink.j51.com!lepslog From: lepslog@j51.com (Louis Epstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DNS, FTP & Mail - for ISP Date: 19 Oct 1995 22:49:31 GMT Organization: TZ-Link, a public-access online community in Nyack, NY. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <466klr$oog@tzlink.j51.com> References: <44mmsd$1lda@news.gate.net> <45eq7b$5g6@uriah.heep.sax.de> <1995Oct13.233040.15450@vindaloo.com> <45rcel$9ts@tzlink.j51.com> <45vr22$101@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: j51.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : Louis Epstein <lepslog@j51.com> wrote: : >And how about partitions over 2048MB? : >Not supported here either? : Where do you have a problem with partitions > 2 GB? Under MSDOS? : Maybe. Under FreeBSD? No. Only files > 2 GB are problematically. I was told by someone running UnixWare that >2GB partitions were a generic problem of Unix.(MSDOS has trouble with partitions over 120MB,the allocation units start growing absurdly!) OK,so if FreeBSD is immune to this alleged generic Unix problem,how about user names more than 8 characters long?