Re: Is It Too Big ? - Customer Data Warehouse Growth - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: Is It Too Big ? - Customer Data Warehouse Growth
Date
Msg-id 1011298158.1559.0.camel@jiro
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In response to Re: Is It Too Big ? - Customer Data Warehouse Growth Projection  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
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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