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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Large hard disks for Amiga
Message-ID: <5396@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 88 17:57:30 GMT
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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The partition limit is 2GB.  There's a bug in the old file system with
respect to the protection bits ... the root block doesn't have
protection bits, since that's where the bitmap pointers are, but the
current file system didn't take care of that (reportedly a sign
problem) and clobbered the bits there, so the only partition you
were safe with was one under 54MB.

This bug is fixed in FFS, and the partition limit is now really 2GB.

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
"I don't know such stuff.  I just do eyes."  -- from 'Blade Runner'