Re: 20TB Storage System

From: Petri Helenius (pete_at_he.iki.fi)
Date: 09/03/03

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To: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com>

    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.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >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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