Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:31:30 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: breaking the 2Gigabyte limit on 32 bit arch of inode->i_size (off_t vs loff_t) |
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On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Alexander Viro wrote: > > >anything along the lines of ext2 on such sizes. Think of the time fsck > > I am not talking about ext2 infact. > > >will take. So I *seriously* doubt that it goes beyond the academical > >exercise. Moreover, anything beyond 16G is going to have a pretty complex > >internal structure and most likely will prefer to live on a separate > >device. > > You mean using two disks, one for the metadata and one for the data? > That's not the problem according to me, because hardware raid will be able > to scale well and do that in hardware.
Nope. Bare /dev/sd<foo> and database taking care of the internal structure.
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