Re: OpenVMS using RAID drives
From: Neil Rieck (n.rieck_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 05/05/05
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Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:11:42 -0400
"David J Dachtera" <djesys.nospam@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Bob Koehler wrote:
>>
>> In article <42790964.7000503@MMaz.com>, "Barry Treahy, Jr."
>> <Treahy@MMaz.com> writes:
>> >
>> > Perhaps this is a dumb question, but does any one really have any one
>> > application that uses a single file of that size? Presuming there is
>> > any type of underlying databases, most databases will allow you to
>> > spread the areas across multiple spindles, or RAID partitions, thereby
>> > making the individual file size, or volume size limit irrelevant...
>> >
>>
>> There are lots of applications that are too dumb to spread thier
>> files around.
>
> Imagine managing an RMS indexed file of 1TB...
>
> *SHUDDER*
>
Since the RFA is a 24 bit structure, wouldn't there be an upper record limit
of ~ 16 million? Depending on the record size you might not ever get to 1
TB.
Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
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