Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Aug 1998 18:40:28 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Files >2G in size & Increasing SCSI disk drive limit. |
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Hi,
On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 21:11:54 -0500, Terry L Ridder <terrylr@tbcnet.com> said:
> A client just today asked about when they will be able to move > a database of roughly 500GB (yes a half of terabyte) from HP-UX > to Linux.
> RAID may be a temporary solution, but even some of their databases > which use "cooked" files as opposed to "raw" disk partitions are larger > than 2GB.
As far as the kernel is concerned, RAID is probably not important at this level of operation. If you have that much storage, chances are you are using a large storage cabinet which can do RAID internally and which just presents a big, virtual SCSI device to the host.
As for >2GB files, that shouldn't take too long to get right but unfortunately we are far too close to 2.2 for it to make it in.
--Stephen
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