Re: Windows NT drive limit

From: UnixDBA <unixdba_at_aol.com>
Date: 29 Apr 1999 02:45:25 GMT
Message-ID: <19990428224525.06839.00000023@ng12.aol.com>

     I believe that Windows NT does indeed run out of drive letters in this 
     case. Microsoft's solution to this is their Distributed File System 
     (DFS). See the following URL for more information:
     
     www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/winfeatures/ntsdistrfile

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Subject: Large NT databases
From: jonathan_at_gennick.com (Jonathan Gennick) Date: 4/25/99 1:39 PM EST
Message-id: <37255abd.12209623_at_netnews.worldnet.att.net>

I was thinking the other day about creating large NT databases, when a question suddenly struck me. How do you name the drives? On a UNIX system that I manage, we have seventy drives allocated for a database. Naming is easy. We have seventy mount points numbered from /M01 through /M70. How would you do this on NT? There aren't enough drive letters. What happens after Z: ?

Jonathan Received on Wed Apr 28 1999 - 21:45:25 CDT