At 7:58 7/1/93 -0600, Allen Hebert wrote:
>
>The RS/6000 does support grouping more than one disk together to make a
>usable space about as large as you could want, but the limit is in the
>maximum file system size, which is limited to 2.3 Gig. This is because of
>the 32 bit addressing that is use in the architecture. I haven't been
>exposed to an flavor of UNIX that will allow you to have a filesystem larger
>than 2.3 GB.
>
>my .01 worth.
>
We have about 100 Gig on our Cray diskfarms running UNICOS 6.1.5 (SysV
based UNIX flavor); about 70% of this is in one filesystem as working
/usr/tmp. Maximum file size is set at 34*10^9 Bytes (so says the
documentation--we discourage such large filesizes as being impractical to
back up).
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