From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 16 4:18:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elwood.akitanet.co.uk (elwood.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.149]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD7B441F for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 04:18:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from elwood.akitanet.co.uk (elwood.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.149]) by elwood.akitanet.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA39680; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:09:14 GMT Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:09:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Robinson To: John Milford Cc: Joe Greco , Brooks Davis , peter@netplex.com.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem size limit? In-Reply-To: <200002160425.UAA02729@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu> 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 Tue, 15 Feb 2000, John Milford wrote: > I will assert that it is insanity to build and use a 1TB UFS > for small files (~ 2.5e8 inodes or 32GB) at least with the current > technology. Maybe I am wrong, if anyone thinks so feel free to tell It has to be said that whilst reading this thread, I've been sat here silently with phrases like 'Storage-Area Networks' buzzing around my head. I agree that multi-terabyte and even petabyte sytems are possible today using technologies better suited to them... ufs in not the way to do it... it might look impressive, but for redundancy and performance it justs seems there are better ways of doing it by breaking it up into lots of smaller filesystems (and I'm not necessarily talking about NFS or disk-partitioning.. :) -- Paul Robinson - Developer/Systems Administrator @ Akitanet Internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message