> Be sure to bring your USB disks or other preferred storage device. > > If it's an NTFS filesystem, also bring a windows laptop... ;) > (We can copy onto NTFS through opensolaris, but the FUSE > implementation is pretty slow... ;)
The ISO image I loaded onto my NTFS file system was about 8 Gb in size. When I tried to copy it onto a FAT32 file system, my PC spat the dummy. The largest file allowable on FAT32 appears to be 2^32 bytes (4Gb) These would seem to exclude even 4.7 Gb ISO images. The only real option appears to be to copy this stuff through the network. I know from experience (Jumpstarting a dozen or so machines at once in a training lab) that the NFS server caches large amounts of stuff so parallel reads through a switched network actually happen quite quickly with close to minimal disk access. I suggest a good way to transfer these files might be from a single NFS server to a group of client m/cs in parallel. I'll bring along a 5 port switch tonight that might speed up the network a bit. I also promise not to bring my Windoze laptop again ... 8-) -- Russell Page Russell.Page at unix.net
