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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4809 comp.os.linux.misc:33326 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!tfs.com!mailhub!julian From: julian@mailhub.tcs.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: Limits on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD Message-ID: <D2D8KH.4Fn@tfs.com> Sender: usenet@tfs.com (Mr. News) Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA References: <pwdD25Htq.58A@netcom.com> <D26603.FzH@park.uvsc.edu> <DFR.95Jan12121409@trout.render.com> <4455@krabat.marco.de> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 22:45:52 GMT Lines: 22 In article <4455@krabat.marco.de>, Matthias Pfaller <leo@krabat.marco.de> wrote: >Doug Rabson (dfr@render.com) wrote: > >Even with 24 bit block addresses (the 10 byte read allows 32 bit >block addresses) you can go up to 16gb when using a block size of 1k. >When using ufs it should be no problem to use disks with a sector size >of 1k. If that's not enough or you are forced to use 512b blocks for >some strange reason you still can use the 10 byte read command. This >should allow disks as large as 2048gb... > (note that this thread is cross-posted to the bsd and linux groups) the BSD scsi code uses the 10-byte read and write commands and so gets the 32 block format. (it used the 6-byte version when I wrote it but was changed very quickly) julian