Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!transfer!lectroid!jjmhome!crackers!m2c!risky.ecs.umass.edu!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!moss From: moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Large drives off of a Decstation 3100 Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 20:32:35 GMT References: <12232@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <940@lhdsy1.chevron.com> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Distribution: na Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 13 In-reply-to: yzarn@lhdsy1.chevron.com's message of 10 Jun 91 17:12:23 GMT Actually, my understanding was that the the problem had to do with low level sector numbering in the SCSI commands (only enough bits to talk about 2 million sectors = 1 billion bytes (at 512 bytes/sector)), so partition size would probably not help. If the problem is inodes or something, then limiting partition size should help ... Eliot Moss -- J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-4206, 545-1249 (fax); Moss@cs.umass.edu