Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Nov 1997 22:28:06 -0500 (EST) | From | Ion Badulescu <> | Subject | Re: Filesize limitation |
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> A set of RAID5 (5+1 disks) 9 GB spindles, 91 catenated > together (546 disks) gives roughly that 4 TB, and is not > THAT big a system... Building them up from SPARC-Array > boxes yields pretty dense disk system, for example. > (If I calculated correctly, it fits into two 19 inch > full height racks...)
You might have a problem just "seeing" all those drives on a Linux system - the current device major/minor size supports only 16 SCSI drives. This is not to say that the 31-bit file size limitation should not be removed, but it's not the only problem Linux has with big-iron systems.
Ionut
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