On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 09:33, Tom Lane wrote:
> I seem to recall having heard that Linux has some ~100GB restriction on
> the size of a single filesystem, which could be a problem. That might
> be obsolete information, but be sure to check max filesystem size for
> whichever kernel you select.
No, ext2 (Linux's default filesystem) can use partitions up to 4TB in
size. For a system this large, something like XFS might be a good choice
(it's been ported to Linux by SGI) -- IIRC, it supports filesystems
larger than a petabyte.
Cheers,
Neil
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