netbsd-help: Re: Partitions>2GB disk on 1.0?

Subject: Re: Partitions>2GB disk on 1.0?
To: John D. Smerdon <jds@smerdon.livonia.mi.us>
From: Kevin Kadow <kadokev@rci.ripco.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/07/1995 22:15:57

> I would like to use an entire 4GB drive for news. Anyone else doing that
> on a 1.0pl6 i386 system?
> 
> Thanks!
TMK, You can't have a single filesystem greater than 2.0Gb, though the support
for combined filesystems might provide a way around this. The problem is
the type of variable used for the offset of seek operations.
The latest C-News provides support for spreading usenet news across multiple
filesystems with symbolic links, but you'll get better performance with two
2Gb drives than from a single 4Gb drive.
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