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Article #17173Re: Is max HPFS drive size only 2 GB? [No]
From: itsinc
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:00
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I found some more sources, and it seems we may have ALL been
wrong about the partition size limit! I was pointed to HPFS.ZIP (available
at the Hobbes FTP site) which contains the following file:
Journal: Microsoft Systems Journal Sept 1989 v4 n5 p1(13)
* Full Text COPYRIGHT Microsoft Corp. 1989.
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Title: Design goals and implementation of the new High Performance File
System. (includes related article on B-Trees and B+ Trees)
Author: Duncan, Roy.
(...)
And guess what Microsoft says the limit is? 2 TERABYTES! We
weren't *too* far off...
"IBM-compatible HPFS volumes use a sector size of 512 bytes and have a maximum
size of 2199Gb (2" sectors)."
Now, this may be a theoretical limit, I suppose...but if there are people
formatting 9 GB drives that's good enough for me. :)
Steve
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