Large file systems

[Art Gentry]

In article <473 at kps.UUCP>, peno at kps.UUCP (Pekka Nousiainen /DP) writes:
> > What I would like to know is if anyone has found problems with large
> > partition sizes (up to 2 or 3 GB).
> 
> There's one practical problem with dump: To restore one file you may have
> to read through several tapes.  This can be a problem if the file system
> is used for "/users".  Apart from this I can't think of any problems.
> [additional verbiage deleted]
 
I have several 571meg file systems (max size of my discs) and have no problems
except as noted above.  One workaround I have used for that is to cpio out
individual directories.  Makes restoring files much easier.  Have always been
a little nerveous about multiple tape archives anyhow, Murphy says "if you
need a file from tape #9, tape #8 will be corrupt". :-)