On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 07:36, Kevin Anderson wrote: > 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. I see. Thank you for clearing that I'm. I'm now guessing that the person who told me this was restricting his vision to 32 bit hardware. > > > > 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. Would would GFS on kernel 2.6 do with a bunch of 32 bit machines with disks attached to them, but a 64 bit client? Is GFS for kernel 2.6 ready at this point? Or nearly so? Thanks for the great info. :) > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ >
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