Thanks to all who responded to my querry regarding Online:Disksuite 2.0. It

seems that there must be a type-o in the 2.0 manual. All but one respondee

agreed that the Online:Disksuite does allow one to create filesystems > 2 GBytes.

The one respondee who said otherwise got his information from a sun sales rep

(which is why I addressed my question to this forum in the first place).

Thanks to:

Birger A. Wathne (No return address)

Linda Cygan "

Jimmy Brown "

John Turner john@zim.bms.com

Glenn Satchell glenn@uniq.com.au

Rick Heaton rheaton@synaptics.com

Andreas Karrer karrer@bernina.ethz.ch

Tony Kocurko tony@sparky.esd.mun.ca

Will Snow will.snow@corp.sun.com

and special thanks to

Syed Zaeem Hosainszh@zcon.com

who provided a copy of an Online:Disksuite FAQ (October 1992) from The

Florida SunFlash.

Original querry:

> We are anticipating receiving a new SC1000 with ~ 90GByte of disk space.

> I've been reading about Online:Disksuite 2.0 and after talking to a

> Tech Rep at SMC I thought I had found a tool to allow me to effectively

> create file systems > 2GBytes. However, on page 38 of the 'Online:Disksuite

> 2.0 Administration Guide' says:

>

> You can expand mounted or unmounted UFS file systems with the

> Online: Disksuite concatenation facilities and the growfs (1M)

> command. (blah, blah, blah...)

> Mounted or unmounted file systems can be expanded up the new

> size of the metadevice on which the file system resides.

>

>

> But on page 42 the guide states:

>

> Mounted or unmounted file systems can be expanded up the new

> size of the metadevice on which the file system resides.

> After the metadevice is configured, it can be used just as

> if it were a physical partition. That means it can be used

> as a block device (up to two gigabytes) or raw device up to

> one terabyte in size...

>

> Q.1 Are not UFS file system read/writes done to block devices?

>

> Q.2 Does anyone really know if Online:Disksuite 2.0 will do what I

> want? Specifically, I need to know if it will allow me to create

> regular file systems (i.e. to hold user data and applications)

> greater than 2 GBytes.

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