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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:44:37 +0100 (CET)
From:      Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
To:        "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Extremely large (70TB) File system/server planning
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102051740460.44272-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20010205092658.A97400@peorth.iteration.net>

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On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Michael C . Wu wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> While talking to a friend about what his company is planning to do,
> I found out that he is planning a 70TB filesystem/servers/cluster/db.
> (Yes, seventy t-e-r-a-b-y-t-e...)
> 
> Apparently, he has files that go up to 2gb each, and actually require
> such a horribly sized cluster.
> 
You later say some files may never be accessed after a week.

How about a multi-level storage system, where the files eventually gets
written onto dvd's. And either a robot or student :-) to put the requested
disks online?

Leif




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