From: Ronald Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] DEC RL01/RL02 RX01/RX02 Disk Image Creator
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 21:26:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8C214FC8-A7F3-4DC1-9600-DA3CE357F041@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200602001446.359F618C073@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
You are right. 16 bit block numbers 24 bit file size for V6.
> On Jun 1, 2020, at 8:14 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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
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2020-06-02 0:14 Noel Chiappa
2020-06-02 1:26 ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
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2020-06-01 15:18 Paul Ruizendaal
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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
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