Re: Is max HPFS drive size only 2 GB?

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From: nstn3088
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 00:00

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In <ian.811118923@bvsd.k12.co.us>, ian@bvsd.k12.co.us (Ian S. Nelson) writes:
>itsinc@mcs.com writes:
>
>>	I found this quote in OS/2's README file today, and I need to know
>>if it's right.  I was 99% sure HPFS could support larger drives.
>
>>	If this is true, can HPFS386 (from LAN Server) handle larger drives?
>
>>Steve
>
>I think it is correct the HPFS has a fairly small max size (or at least OS/2
>incarnation of the HPFS standard uses 2G as the max, in case some IBMer knows
>something the rest of us don't care)
>
>I also believe that HPFS386 fixes that as well as some of HPFS' other short 
>comings.  I'm not 100% certain though.  If HPFS386 doesn't do it, then there 
>is probably product that will fix it.
>-- 
>Ian S. Nelson			I speak for only myself.	
>Finger for my PGP key.  


Just to add... that's 2GB per partition, not drive, in case someone thought OS/2 couldn't use a 9GB drive :P

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