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From: root@uwspan.UUCP (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: microport 2.3 release notes - problems dropped off the list
Message-ID: <2568@uwspan.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 06:01:35 GMT
References: <1542@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: root@uwspan.UUCP (John Plocher)
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Organization: U of Wisconsin - Madison  Spanish Department
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+---- karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) writes in <1542@sugar.UUCP> ----
|              The bug list said about 130,000.  (I suppose it would
| be 131071)  I am running a partition with 128,000 blocks.  Am I in 
| trouble, or what?
+----

The limit in 2.3 V/AT *is* 131071 512 byte blocks.

    (I know you know this, Karl, but others may not...)

This equals 65535  1024 byte blocks, and just *happens* to be the largest
value that can be stored in a 16 bit unsigned integer.  This integer is
used somewhere in the file system code and is the reason for the limit.

The fix is to simply change this to a   unsigned long   and get 32 bits out
of it.  But only Microport can do it... :-(


   -John

	

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