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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: disc labels on 4.3 (vax)
Keywords: disc label tahoe vax 4.3bsd
Message-ID: <14805@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 88 13:11:13 GMT
References: <498@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1372@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1372@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP
(der Mouse) writes:
>The label won't take more than fifty or a hundred bytes ....

4.3tahoe disk labels are 276 bytes long.

(This is one reason 4.3tahoe drivers will not install in 4.3BSD
systems: 4.3BSD ioctls cannot pass more than 127 bytes.)
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