Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!mitel!uunet!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Giant disks
Message-ID: <2798@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 12 Oct 88 17:36:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: sugar.2798
References: <4912@cbmvax.UUCP> <176@antares.UUCP> <9579@swan.ulowell.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <9579@swan.ulowell.edu>, page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
> stevex@ziebmef.UUCP (Steve Tibbett) wrote:
> >A 4096 byte block size would let you have 8 times the amount of storage
> >the current 512 byte block size would before overflowing...

> That's OK for DOS, bot not for Exec.  Exec wants IOStdReq's in terms
> of byte offsets, and there's only 32 bits in the offset.

Is this a 32-bit limit on *device* size or just on *file* size? I think
that you could live with a 32-bit limit on files with a 48-bit limit on
devices/partitions...

But, yeh. It's totally appropriate to start working on ways around this.
Best would probably be a second set of calls with bigger offsets.
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		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
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