From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 8:45:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.internet.dk (ns.internet.dk [194.19.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512F737B69E for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:45:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with UUCP id f15Gj2Y29698; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:45:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f15Gibx44439; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:44:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:44:37 +0100 (CET) From: Leif Neland To: "Michael C . Wu" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extremely large (70TB) File system/server planning In-Reply-To: <20010205092658.A97400@peorth.iteration.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Michael C . Wu wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > While talking to a friend about what his company is planning to do, > I found out that he is planning a 70TB filesystem/servers/cluster/db. > (Yes, seventy t-e-r-a-b-y-t-e...) > > Apparently, he has files that go up to 2gb each, and actually require > such a horribly sized cluster. > You later say some files may never be accessed after a week. How about a multi-level storage system, where the files eventually gets written onto dvd's. And either a robot or student :-) to put the requested disks online? Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message