[Gllug] sparc 227terabyte disk size oddness

[Ian Norton]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:02:52PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Martin A. Brooks muttered drunkenly:
> Possibly a move from non-LFS to LFS was going on, and you got bitten by
> having some parts of the system built LFS (with 64-bit file pointers and
> sizes) and some parts built non-LFS (with file pointers and sizes only
> 32-bit).

might i point out that the machine in question is a sparc lx, afaik totally
32bit, but i agree it does sound like some funny sizing/word lenght thing

Ian

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