Re: > 16TB worth of data question

Sorry, for got a little info. A few years from now, I'd still like to be
able to luse my old servers for a bit of load balancing..

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On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 13:38, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 14:23, Jeremiah Jahn wrote:
> > I have a system that will store about 2TB+ of images per year in a PG
> > database. Linux unfortunatly has the 16TB limit for 32bit systems.
>
> I'm not sure why the 16TB limit you refer to would be a problem in the
> short to medium term, if you're only storing 2TB/year.
>
> > Would life better to not store the
> > images as BLOBS, and instead come up with some complicated way to only
> > store the location in the database
>
> FWIW, storing the FS location in the database is by no means
> complicated. I'm personally not very fond of doing that, but not because
> it's overly complex...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
>
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