Re: Is max HPFS drive size only 2 GB?

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From: Doug Azzarito
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 00:00

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In <43fok7$hc@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>, dfetholf@ix.netcom.com (David Fetherolf) writes:
>I was at B. Dalton after reading this thread today and answering
>privately by e-mail. According to a book I have that claims to be "OS/2
>Accredited", whatever that means, it's 2GB per disk.

Just because some yahoo writes a book, it does NOT mean that yahoo knows 
what he's talking about.

The current HPFS has a 64GB partition limit.  It "honors" the OS/2 limit of 2GB
per file, but there is no HPFS limit on file size (other than how much freespace
you have on your partition).

The HPFS design limit is 2TB per partition.  The current code doesn't support it,
but if drives continue to grow, HPFS can be modified to handle 2TB drives on
a single partition.

 -- Doug Azzarito
    "The OS/2 Guy"
    (the 'yahoo' who wrote "The OS/2 Warp Survival Guide", and the current
     developer of HPFS)

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