From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 10:26:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA06650 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 10:26:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06644 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 10:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id TAA02887; Wed, 15 May 1996 19:08:51 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199605151708.TAA02887@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Partitioning a 23.4 Giga Byte To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 19:08:51 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: sdd@ccd.tas.gov.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199605141759.KAA12671@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 14, 96 10:59:23 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Will freebsd allow a file system this large ??? > > Yes. > > Satoshi is going on 1Tbyte of CCD disk space (his stated target) That's about 50-100 disks, depending on their capacity. Even assuming 3-4MB/s each (which they should be able to sustain), this amounts to about 2-300MB/s that one would like to pump in/out. Any idea on the architecture of the "CCP" (Concatenated Processors?) that would be necessary to provide such a throughput using our nice little slow x86 ? Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================