Maximum disk size

David Higgen daveh at xtenk.asd.sgi.com
Thu Jun 20 08:11:39 AEST 1991


In article <8531 at oasys.dt.navy.mil>, scfisher at oasys.dt.navy.mil (Fisher) writes:
> Does anyone know what the maximum disk size that Irix will support?  We
> are considering getting some 1.6GB (unformatted) drives for our systems.

There really is no explicit limit on disk size as such. (Well, OK, 2^31
512-byte blocks... ;-)  )

The maximum filesystem size is currently 8 gig.

Are these drives anything we support? If not, the usual caveats about
being on your own with third-party hardware apply, of course...



		Dave Higgen (daveh at xtenk.asd.sgi.com)



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