SUMMARY: Filesystem size

From: Grant Lowe <glowe_at_skydesk.com>
Date: Thu Jul 19 2001 - 10:35:09 EDT
Hi managers.

I want to say thanks for the answers I received, which were from Ian Perez
Ponce, Modrego K., Mark Cohen, and Kristopher Briscoe.  All of them
recommend Veritas FileSystem (VxFS) for this.  One of them suggested that
Veritas theoretically supported up to 8000 TB!  Most of them said that why
would I want to manage a filesystem that is bigger than 1 TB.  Well, since
we do Internet data storage and archiving, that is why.  What we have
decided to go with here is, for right now, go with an HSM solution that will
let us scale our system to about 5 TB this week, and to about 10 TB in the
next couple of months.  Since we already have about 7 million files, and are
growing daily by 50-60K files, then we need something that can handle the
multiple TB filesystem.

Original message:

I know that Solaris 2.8 supports a 1 TB filesystem, max.  Does anybody know
what third party software, hopefully freeware or shareware, will support
larger filesystems?  This is for (obviously) Solaris 2.8 on an E4500, with
4GB RAM.  Thanks.

Grant
Received on Thu Jul 19 15:35:09 2001

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