Eric,
I believe that UFS2 (5.3+) will handle filesystems of that size
without a problem. I would make sure however that your hardware plays
well with freebsd before you purchase it.
--Nick
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:49:18 -0500, Eric McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm planning to build a fairly large - somewhere from 1TB to 1.75TB in
size - array behind a hardware RAID controller and put FreeBSD on it.
But after being a good boy and Googling for information before laying
out a couple grand, I discovered that FreeBSD might not have such great
support for large filesystems. The last bit of useful information I
found was from July 2004, so the situation might have changed since then
and I figured I'd ask.
What sort of problems can I expect to see? Aesthetic problems, like
negative numbers in df, are not a worry. The vast majority of files
will be 1GB or smaller, so that's not a concern either. But the guy who
did those tests in July got no space left on device after using up
only 800GB or so, and that obviously would be a problem. Naturally I
can, and will, test this myself when I get the hardware, but I'm
concerned that there may be creeping invisible problems which might
result in frequent panics or loss of data - problems which might not
become apparent until after I've reached the point where I no longer
have enough room to play musical chairs with my data (which will be
about 400GB in).
Any information anyone has, even if it's just a pointer to who or where
I should be asking instead, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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