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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Large Physical Volume seeks Mount Point
Date: 18 Feb 1995 03:44:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3i2qc8$ctp@exile.oec.com>, Jim Doyle <doyle@OEC.COM> wrote:
>Large physical storage volumes needs mount point on
>any compatible filesystem type.

:-)

>Has many hundreds of millions of i-nodes that need
>backup - offsite preferred.

The next snapshot of FreeBSD should support >2GB filesystem sizes,
though the sizes of individual files is still constrained at 2GB
due to the way our VM system works.  We're working on that limitation
as well, but this is definitely a 2.2 project!

					Jordan