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From: bob@amscons.com (Bob Amstadt)
Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box?
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Organization: Amstadt Consulting Group
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 14:38:40 GMT
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randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
: In article <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org writes:
: >There is another thing to consider:
: >386bsd has a stable BSD-FFS and stable networking, while there are bugs in 
: >the Linux efs and in their networking.
: 
: 	I was under the impression that linux also had something
: 	funky about the maximum size of file system partitions.
: 	Something like 40 megs?  Or is that old hat?

The Minix filesystem is limited to 64MB.  All other filesystems have
a much larger maximum size.
-- 
Bob Amstadt
bob@amscons.com