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From: Ronald Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
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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