From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Feb 5 9:24:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E85B37B65D; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 09:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3949A57611; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:24:20 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:24:20 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extremely large (70TB) File system/server planning Message-ID: <20010205112420.A98288@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" References: <20010205100016.C97400@peorth.iteration.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:47:58AM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Mitch Collinsworth scribbled: | On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Michael C . Wu wrote: | > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:39:02AM -0500, Mitch Collinsworth scribbled: | > | You didn't say what applications this thing is going to support. | > | That does matter. A lot. One thing worth looking at is AFS, | > | or maybe MR-AFS. And now OpenAFS. | > | > He has database(s) of graphics simulation results. i.e. large files that | > are largely unrelated to each other. Compression is not an option. | > | > The files are accessed approximately 3 or 4 times a day on average. | > Older files are archived for reference purpose and may never | > be accessed after a week. | | Ok, this is a start. Now is the 70 TB the size of the active files? | Or does that also include the older archived files that may never be | accessed again? 70TB is the size of the sum of all files, access or no access. (They still want to maintain accessibility even though the chances are slim.) -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message