Re: newbie questions on sizes...

1999-08-03 Thread Lou Langholtz
Jan Harkes wrote: > . . . As Coda caches whole files, it is not very useful to actually have > larger than 2GB files because it takes a lot of time to fetch/store such > a large file (I know networking is getting faster every day, but still). > However, being able to run Coda on 64-bit architectu

Re: newbie questions on sizes...

1999-08-03 Thread Jan Harkes
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:50:59AM -0600, Lou Langholtz wrote: > > . . . > > > 3. If coda supports bigger than 2GB caches, is the largest file size > > > always the size of the cache or is it limited to 32bits large or > > > something? Ie. is coda a 32 bit file system? > > > > Yes, Cod

RE: newbie questions on sizes...

1999-08-03 Thread Peter J. Braam
; To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: newbie questions on sizes... > > > On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:58:29AM -0600, Lou Langholtz wrote: > > Hoping someone could easily answer some newbie questions for me: > > > > 1. The docs seem to encourage using caches of only 600MB

Re: newbie questions on sizes...

1999-08-03 Thread Lou Langholtz
> . . . > > 3. If coda supports bigger than 2GB caches, is the largest file size > > always the size of the cache or is it limited to 32bits large or > > something? Ie. is coda a 32 bit file system? > > Yes, Coda is still very 32-bit oriented. Even on a 64-bit processor, > like the spa

Re: newbie questions on sizes...

1999-08-03 Thread Jan Harkes
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:58:29AM -0600, Lou Langholtz wrote: > Hoping someone could easily answer some newbie questions for me: > > 1. The docs seem to encourage using caches of only 600MB or less. Is > that just because it takes a while to prep a new cache or is there > some techni