Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:31:19 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith) Cc: jgreco@ns.sol.net, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem size limit? Message-ID: <200002152131.PAA77222@aurora.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <200002152125.NAA00591@mass.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Feb 15, 2000 1:25:24 pm"
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> > > The scary thing about this posting is that Joe was able to construct his > > > 1TB+ filesystem with *ONLY* 37 hard drives. > > > > 37? 38. And you, a programmer! ;-) And that gets you 1.9TB (disk mfr > > counting-wise). I'd have loved to break 2TB but couldn't imagine how to > > handle the required number of scsi busses without botchery. I could get > > 1TB with only 20 drives. These _are_ 50GB drives. > > An AMI MegaRAID 1500 will give you sixty devices - four LVD channels. At > 50GB a disk, that's ~3TB from a single card. Or you could go the FC > route, but that's probably too expensive to be fun. I was under the impression that there were still device number limits with the LVD spec. Besides, figuring out how to actually physically set up more than 9 devices is a pain. The Kingston DS400 will do 9 devices, but to do more, you then have to have another chassis with only 6 (for example). Eats up space real quick :-( ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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