MS-DOS version (was: What's best to do?? classically speaking

From: Brian Chase <bdc_at_world.std.com>
Date: Fri Jun 22 15:15:06 2001

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Cini, Richard wrote:

> > Large disk support == LBA translation (i.e., single hard disk partitions
> > over 524mb in size).
>
> Thank you
> The phrase "large disk support" will always carry some confusion due to
> it's RELATIVE nature. 32M, ~500M, 8G, ... What is the current limit?

In Microsoft products? Who cares :-) I like my SGI XFS filesystems with
a 1TB filesystem limits. Future releases of it are supposed to support
18,000,000 TB filesystem sizes.

I've never seen a UNIX filesytem more wonderfully scaleable and fast as
XFS, but it's not 10 years old yet.

-brian.
Received on Fri Jun 22 2001 - 15:15:06 BST