On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 20:18, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > Last I heard: > > Sistina (prior to the Redhat purchase) had a roadmap for GFS, which > included bringing it up to, but not surpassing, the 16 terabyte limit. Plans were always to go way past 16TB, requires 64bit hardware architectures and the 2.6 kernel to push the limits. > > Since the Redhat purchase, my understanding is that this previous > roadmap has been scrapped, and there are no longer any immediate plans > to raise the GFS filesystem size limit from 2 terabytes to 16 terabytes > - in which case, you can pretty much just use NFS, unless you're stuck > with small disks or low density servers. :) > > I'd -really-like- to find out this isn't true. > For the 2.6 kernel, GFS should be able to go to 16TB on 32bit machines. On 64 bit machines, the theoretical limit is something like 8 exabytes. If anyone wants to pony up that amount of storage, we would be more than happy to give it a go. In the meantime, smaller sizes are going to be validated. So, plans have not been scrapped or even changed much from Sistina to Red Hat. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
