Subject: Re: Large Files and file systems
To: Gentry Ganote <gentry@gainsystems.com>
From: Rob Windsor <windsor@warthog.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/10/1998 07:26:25
Verily did Gentry Ganote write:

> What is the largest file supported by FFS?  LFS?  Is there a version of LFS
> for netBSD?
> Has anyone worked on single files in the 50 to 100 Gig range on netBSD?
> Is there any RAID 0,5 type software available to concatenate many disks
> together to get these large file systems?

afaik, LFS for NetBSD is still broken.  Feel free to fix and distribute,
though.  :>

I don't know what the largest file supported is, but I can answer the last
question:

ccd(4) - Concatenated Disk Driver

This would be your "raid-0" filesystem.

Jason Thorpe announced sometime last fall that he had a Rather Large
filesystem using the above driver, and I've heard numerous success stories
about those who are using it.

-- Rob
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