Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:25:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem size limit? Message-ID: <200002152125.NAA00591@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:56:50 CST." <200002151856.MAA66327@aurora.sol.net>
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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 think you'll > continue to see a move towards some sort of "storage appliance" for various > applications, just like the Diablo server is a storage appliance for Usenet > articles. It's not exactly a filesystem, but it's similar in that it is a > fit-for-purpose model to do the required task. IMO, this is where SAN comes into the picture. But I just want Fibre Fabric working. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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