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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD dedicated NFS server Date: 15 Sep 1995 11:19:24 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 37 Message-ID: <43bnfs$nco@reason.cdrom.com> References: <439rdd$mjk@excalibur.edge.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: jeff@medsup.com X-URL: news:439rdd$mjk@excalibur.edge.net jeff@medsup.com (Jeff Bauer) wrote: >2. I would like to have about 8GB capacity, with the ability to > add more in the future. -a- Can this be done with a single > 9GB drive with FreeBSD? -b- Is anyone using low-cost raid > solutions? a. Yes. b. We have been playing a bit with disk striping, but proper "raid" I can't really say. >3. One of the advantages with our FAServer is that it has one huge > physical filesystem which is organized by sysadmin into separate > logical mounts. The free space gets used by whoever needs it. Yes, that's nice. You'd need to work rather hard on FreeBSD to get equivalent functionality, at least at the filesystem layer. > longwinded question comes down to this: What are the practical > maximum limits for FreeBSD: Physical hard drives (number & size)? > Filesystem (size/inodes)? Theoretically any number of hard drives, max filesystem size is 2^63, max *file* size is 2^32 (it's actually possible to change this, but it makes *all* fsops slower to go to 64 bit addresses :-( ). >4. What tape backup solutions are being used? I would prefer not > to change tapes during a master backup. A possible consideration > would be to have 2 DAT drives -- with data compression this might > work. Does anyone have experience with this or a better solution? We use DAT and 8mm Exabyte drives here all the time. With a backup solution like http://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/packages/utilities/amanda-2.2.6.tgz the drive is managed fairly well. -- Jordan