15 Jun
2004
15 Jun
'04
10:23 a.m.
tsesow@nsllc.com (Timothy Sesow) wrote:
- LINUX has a 2TB file system limit. Solaris has a 1TB limit. NetApp
has something like a 6TB limit. 96Tbytes is the most number of disk shelves (24) that can be hooked into that filer. I would much rather have 16 file systems with NetApp than 48 file systems with LINUX.
One shouldn't read too much into these various limits, as everyone is scrambling to increase them. For Solaris, in particular, ufs filing systems can now be up to 8TB if created with the mtb=y option (giving up fragments), and then there's zfs ... dfs ... well, whatever Sun marketing are calling it this week ... on the horizon.
Chris Thompson Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk