[Discussion] Hard Drive Partition Sizes

[Bob]

** Reply to message from "Phil Parker" <phil at math.wichita.edu> on Tue, 02 Mar
2010 01:21:11 -0600

> >If you re-check my first letter, at the beginning of the quote from Jan van
> >Wijk, he says
> >"FS-size upto 2 terabyte (2048 GiB) by design"
> >.
> >While YOU may be correct, I think HE is saying 2 TB for a single file! 
> 
> No, he's saying the File System (FS) can cover 2 TiB by design. But recall
> from another post that in practice the limit is 64 GiB for an HPFS file system
> (partition), and that same compromise leads to the 2 GiB individual file size
> limit.

Off hand I don't remember what the maximum size of a "File System" can be.

I do know that the maximum file size is at least 2 TB.  In Warp4 the file
pointer was increased from 32 bits to 64 bits.  You did need to change your
program because the new file calls had an "L" added to the name to identify it
was one of the new file calls.

-- 
Robert Blair