In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert G.
Moskowitz) writes:
>We are looking for a file system that will run on SUNs that:
> Support a file of more than 2Gb, max target is 6Gb
> Spans disk drives without the use of RAID (too slow...)
> Addressable by Sybase which means it looks like a Hardware
> Device
>Will AFS do the job? DFS? XYZ?
Aside from the slowness of any networked file system protocol,
AFS and NFS both choke at the 2 Gb barrier. Neither are capable
of carrying a seek offset that expands past what a 32-bit long
can carry. You need some kind of disk striping supported by
the Sun kernel. I have no idea how you get that on a Sun.
BTW, what made you think RAID is necessarily slow? It can be
if poorly implemented or if you can't select simple striping
without parity drives.
Rob T
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