Karl Huysmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am planning to build a file server running Gentoo, and before I start > buying equipment, I would like to ask if anyone had any experience with > a similar setup. > > Here's the challenge: > > I need to provide around 3 TB of disk space with a limited budget. The > files I need to store are all HD video frames, typically in SGI format, > file size around 8 MB each. The files will be accesed from an SGI IRIX > workstations and from one Win2K box. All these have Gigabit ethernet > interfaces.
Forget about the idea building a 3TB fs. It won't work - regardless of the file system. Maximum guaranteed size is 1TB; 2TB might work if the moon is in the right place and you throw something (whatever) over the left shoulder behind you ;) The reason are the limits in the current block device layer. See also http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext3-users&m=103409823302990&w=2 Cheers, Juri -- Juri Haberland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
