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Date:      Tue, 2 Sep 2003 17:41:37 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Max Clark <max.clark@media.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 20TB Storage System
Message-ID:  <20030902224136.GA98381@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <ILENIMHFIPIBHJLCDEHKIEMEDCAA.max.clark@media.net>
References:  <ILENIMHFIPIBHJLCDEHKIEMEDCAA.max.clark@media.net>

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In the last episode (Sep 02), Max Clark said:
> 2) What is the maximum size of a filesystem that I can present to the
> host OS using vinum/ccd? Am I limited anywhere that I am not aware
> of?

Depends on whether you plan on crashing or not :)  According to
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2003-July/000181.html,
you may not want to create filesystems over 3TB if you want fsck to
succeed.  I don't know if that's using the default newfs settings
(which would create an insane number of inodes), though.

> 3) Could I put all 20TB on one system, or will I need two to sustain
> the IO required?

To sustain only 30MByte/s across the entire set?  Doesn't really
matter, since even a single disk could do that.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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