23 Feb 95 05:02, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to David Bannister:

 JdBP>   You're missing the point.

Not missing any point at all.  On the other hand I do think you have a hard
time drawing a line between the logical HPFS format and the .IFS.

 JdBP>  It's still a limit on HPFS partition sizes,
 JdBP>   whether it is in the driver or not.

Make ya' a deal.  Send me a 2T array and approx. $250K in US funds for
development and I will be more than happy to develop you a replacement for
the IFS that will go above the current limit.  BTW, I get to keep the array
when it is done along with the source and rights. ;-)

 JdBP>   And until someone comes along with an HPFS driver that doesn't have
 JdBP>   this bug^H^H^H design flaw in it, to all intents and purposes it
 JdBP>   matters not that the HPFS disc structures are capable of holding 2Tb
 JdBP>   per partition.  You'll never be able to access over 64Gb.

No Jonathan, if presented with the hardware *I* can access more than 64GB.

 JdBP>   Here's the original exchange between Mike Bilow and myself that
 JdBP>   *started* this thread :

 JdBP>   -+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--
 JdBP> Conference: Os2prog

[del *]

 JdBP>   -+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--

 JdBP>   I saved that and some of the subsequent messages, because they are the
 JdBP>   first time that anything about size limitations to HPFS other than the
 JdBP>   2Tb limit have come to light.

 JdBP>   Do you follow what we're getting at now ?

I must say it is all rather silly.

You jump me for correcting someone for saying that HPFS has a limit of 64gb
while I fully acknowledge that the limit of hpfs.ifs is that value.

HPFS.ifs != HPFS.

It is like saying you cannot undelete an HPFS file because OS/2 does not
include a true undelete program.  Another example of an external
limitation.

David

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