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Date:      Wed, 03 Sep 2003 22:58:43 +0300
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To:        Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com>
Cc:        Max Clark <max.clark@media.net>
Subject:   Re: 20TB Storage System
Message-ID:  <3F5647F3.5080502@he.iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20030903110615.GA25233@chuggalug.clues.com>
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Geoff Buckingham wrote:

>>- This is a big problem (no pun intended), my smallest requirement is still
>>5TB... what would you recommend? The smallest file on the storage will be
>>500MB.
>>
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>If you files are all going this large I imagine you should look carefully at
>what you do with inodes, block and cluster sizes 
>  
>

fsck problem should be gone with less inodes and less blocks since if
I read the code correctly, memory is consumed according to used inodes
and blocks so having like 20000 inodes and 64k blocks should allow
you to build 5-20T filesystem and actually fsck them.

Pete




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