From: jpo@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Joerg Pommnitz) Subject: Re: mkfs limited to <65536 ? Date: 9 Jun 1992 11:37:40 GMT
fink@think.com (Paul Fink) writes:
>There seems to be a limit in mkfs that won't allow filesystems >= 65536.
>Is this just a short int in atoi or it is a real limit in the filesystem?
>Paul
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> Paul Fink fink@think.com 617 234-4150
It's a limitation of the filesystem coming from Tanenbaum's
MINIX.
For more informations read Tanenbaum's book about
OS development.
(I think someone out is writing a new FS with support
for long filenames and a fs up to 4GBytes).