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Re: SGI - IRIX xfs support

1997-10-01 05:30:14
Subject: Re: SGI - IRIX xfs support
From: "J. Albrecht" <al AT H1TW0036.HOECHST DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 09:30:14 +0000
Zvika,

we have one IRIX 6.2 client running with an 4.5 GB xfs Filesystem.
Client Software is Version 2, Release 1, Level 0.6

We don't have discovered any difficulties til now. So it seems to work...

Regards

Juergen

>
> I can live without support for 2 GB files, but hardly for filesystems.
> Most SGIs around have such fs. Points to remember (that's for ADSM dev. team):
>
> 1. SGI. by default formats one filesystem on the system disk (it's a fact,
>    never mind the pro/con arguments), and that's the way the users get their
>    stations !
>
> 2. Anyway, filesystems > 2GB are becoming very common .
>
> I did read on this list about positive experience using the client on SGi-IRIX
> machines, but not mentioning the issue of > 2GB fs.
>
> Can anyone (hopefully from the ADSMers on this list) enlighten us about
> this issue (including beta/future releases) ? How about efs > 2GB (I do
> have such beasts around).
>
>
> Regards,
> /Zvika
>



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