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From: alan@shodha.enet.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Large drives off of a Decstation 3100
Summary: 2^21 LBNs.
Message-ID: <3373@shodha.enet.dec.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 02:32:12 GMT
References: <12232@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <940@lhdsy1.chevron.com> <MOSS.91Jun10163235@ibis.cs.umass.edu>
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	The problem was that you could not safely reference more
	than 2^21 LBNs.  Since most LBNs are 512 bytes, that works
	out to 1 GB.  It didn't matter how it was partitioned.  This
	problem has been fixed in ULTRIX V4.2.
-- 
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxn.dec.com