> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 8:33 PM
> To: Michael Ghens
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Dell PERC2/SC
>
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Michael Ghens wrote:
>
> > Also how big of a raid partition is possible? I have a data
> partition need
> > of 36 gigs plus.
>
> No problem. They make individual drives bigger than that
> now. You can
> supposedly have ext2 partitions up to a few terabytes. If you fill a
> partition that big and the system crashes, fsck time might be
> a good time
> to schedule your next vacation :)
And since you'll probably be on an x86 system, you'll be limited to file
sizes of 2GB. That might suck for a database server, and it certainly sucks
for my VMware workstation, but for internet and file/print servers, it
shouldn't be a problem.
Grego
