From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 8:48:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.ccmr.cornell.edu (mercury.ccmr.cornell.edu [128.84.231.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5FA37B69F; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:48:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from ruby.ccmr.cornell.edu (IDENT:0@ruby.ccmr.cornell.edu [128.84.231.115]) by mercury.ccmr.cornell.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15223; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:48:00 -0500 Received: from localhost (mitch@localhost) by ruby.ccmr.cornell.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06750; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:47:58 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: ruby.ccmr.cornell.edu: mitch owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:47:58 -0500 (EST) From: Mitch Collinsworth To: "Michael C . Wu" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extremely large (70TB) File system/server planning In-Reply-To: <20010205100016.C97400@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: > 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? -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message