Mark, If you are seriously talking about terabytes you should consider drive striping (hardware raid) and carefully investigate how you are going to back the system up before anything else.
There are things you can do to kernel and file system settings to tweak the file system limits. The following link talks about LFS (Large File System) support: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html (there is a chart about 7/8 of the way down the page showing various limits). You should also consider using a different file system type (beside ext3). Don't forget to consider that it could take a long time to run fsck on a single huge FS (ie of TB+ order). You will probably need to disable the fsck checks on the FS at boot up, unless you have time to wait. Skipping fsck is not as bad as it was in the old days if you are using some variation of a journaling FS. I have had more problems with file size limits then file system size limits in the past. To exceed the 2GB file size limit make sure you are using a version later then glibc2.1 or use a different file system type. I have been running a pair of 120GB drives without any problems on an old, non-2YK compliant system for several months. That is where ftp.sclinux.org files are now located. I am using an older kernel without LFS patches. -----Original Message----- From: 02fun-u2 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sclug-generallist] 160gig hdd and linux do most linux "see" large hdd or do you have to load some large disk support _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
