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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:31043 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1015 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: 386bsd, linux: which runs more out of the box? References: <CGD.93Mar23030821@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <hwr.732890376@snert.ka.sub.org> <C4D87B.Au3@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Linux box and AmPR node Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 23:15:19 GMT Message-ID: <1993Mar24.231519.6057@kf8nh.wariat.org> Lines: 20 In article <C4D87B.Au3@chinet.chi.il.us> 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 original filesystem (type "minix", which tells you where it came from :-) has a 64MB limit. There are several filesystems (efs, e2fs, xiafs) that do not have this limit. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org It's not too late to turn back from the "Gates" of Hell... Linux. The FREE 32-bit operating system, available NOW.