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From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: "g_patrickb via 9fans" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Help with Interpretation
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:00:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5333e89-384f-4488-b758-87646cdeb489@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6070a52-7f86-a06b-bc9e-8681970e6a39@fjrhome.net>

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, at 12:19 AM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
> 
> I built the file server using a 32-bit 386 kernel but I think 64-bit 
> CWFS was used?

64-bit CWFS just means it uses larger addresses for larger disks & files, it's nothing to do with the system architecture. If I remember right, smaller/older CWFS uses 56 bits, but that leaves me wondering why the change was made. (56 bits can address 72e15 bytes.)

      reply	other threads:[~2020-01-16 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-05 13:25 Frank D. Engel, Jr.
2020-01-05 15:56 ` [9fans] " Steven Stallion
2020-01-06  0:19   ` Frank D. Engel, Jr.
2020-01-16 17:00     ` Ethan Gardener [this message]

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