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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] DEC RL01/RL02 RX01/RX02 Disk Image Creator
Date: Mon,  1 Jun 2020 20:14:46 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200602001446.359F618C073@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Ronald Natalie

    > The V6 file system was limited to 2^24 blocks

No, 2^16; from filsys.h:

        int     s_fsize;        /* size in blocks of entire volume */

and of course on an -11 an int is 16 bits.

Maybe you're thinking of the file size, which was 2^24 bytes (max).

      Noel

             reply	other threads:[~2020-06-02  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-02  0:14 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2020-06-02  1:26 ` Ronald Natalie
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-06-01 15:18 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-01 15:04 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-01 22:54 ` Paul Riley
2020-06-01 10:18 Paul Riley
2020-06-01 13:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-06-01 22:35   ` Paul Riley
2020-06-01 13:04 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-01 22:45   ` Paul Riley
2020-06-01 23:59     ` Ronald Natalie
2020-06-02  4:57       ` Paul Riley
2020-06-02 13:31     ` Clem Cole
2020-06-02 13:52     ` Clem Cole
2020-06-02 15:44       ` Ronald Natalie
2020-06-02 16:26         ` Warner Losh
2020-06-02 18:08         ` Clem Cole
2020-06-02 18:59         ` Paul Winalski
2020-06-02 19:08           ` Adam Thornton

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