[ale] Terabyte of data

[Danny Cox]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 00:16, cfowler wrote:
> I'm looking at a situation where I need to create a raid 0 file system that
> equals 1 terabyte of storeage for trival data.  Has anyone done this with
> Linux?  I think the ext2 fs does have a limit that may keep it from going up
> to a terabyte in size.  I'll also have a limit on the file sizes too. 
> 
> Is there an ATA raid card that can do more than 4 drives.  It seems the
> biggest I can get is 200Mb drives.  I'll need at least 5 maybe 6 drives.

	Another data point that just came in today, from Andrew Klasssen: take
it as you like:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=104623484026425&w=2

	Basically, it sez that while generating frames for an IMAX film, XFS
performed flawlessly, but ext3 AND ext2 dropped frames....

-- 
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny

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