[Info-vax] BACKUP/INIT

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<c13068d8-a8cc-411c-8b50-1d449a56f3b3 at i39g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
jbriggs444 <jbriggs444 at gmail.com> writes: 

> In the old days my recollection is that there was a hard limit on the
> size of bitmap.sys and, as a result, the number of allocation clusters
> on the volume had a hard cap.  Make the volume big enough and
> the default cluster size of 3 is inadequate to allow bitmap.sys to
> cover
> the whole volume.
> 
> INITIALIZE was aware of this and would bump up the cluster factor
> for large volumes.

OK, but it was a 1-GB disk!