From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 11 08:25:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA17349 for current-outgoing; Sat, 11 May 1996 08:25:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA17341 for ; Sat, 11 May 1996 08:25:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA03401; Sat, 11 May 1996 10:24:37 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199605111524.KAA03401@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: more than 32 scsi disks on a single machine ? To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 10:24:36 -0500 (CDT) Cc: phk@critter.tfs.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org, nisha@cs.berkeley.edu In-Reply-To: <199605111047.DAA19782@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at May 11, 96 03:47:35 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > * So how big is the filesystem that you're trying to make ? :-) > > Three terabytes. (Hey stop laughing) How many drives is that? (even at 9GB/drive that's a few hundred drives, _without_ any sort of mirroring or replication, and I would think that the MTBF would be fairly low) :-) I guess the better question is, what in God's name are you going to store in three terabytes? :-) ... JG