Large file systems

[Dave Olsen]

I am a system manager at Materials Science Center, Cornell University,
responsible for a Convex C210 system with 5 GB of disk.  Out of this, we
would like to make about 3 GB of disk available for our users, on two
partitions.

What I would like to know is if anyone has found problems with large
partition sizes (up to 2 or 3 GB).  Any problems with utilities like dump,
system administration difficulties with large partition sizes, and so on.
Those persons we have talked to have no experience with this size of
partition.

(For those of you who are wondering how I can be talking about a 2 or 3 GB
partition size on disks smaller than this, Convex Unix allows striping
across several disks to get partitions larger than a single disk.)

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