[NTLUG:Discuss] query on configuration for simple data backup storage...

[George E. Lass]

Don't know if this will be a problem or not, but doesn't
Linux still have a ~2GB (2,147,483,647) FILE size limit?

George

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> Fred James wrote:
> 
> > My question?
> > (1) How large a drive can Linux support (IDE or SCSI)?
> 
> With partitioning, there probably isn't a practical limit.
> 
> I've used 60Gb drives without problems.
> 
> > (2) Can Linux support a large file system across drives (not sure I said
> > that right - I mean one directory made up of more than one hard drive)?
> 
> I guess you'd have to use RAID to do that.
> 
> Although you could use symbolic links to make files on different drives
> *look* as though they were all in one directory.
> 
> > I was thinking of a PC with a 4GB OS drive, a CD-ROM, and 3 36 GB drives
> > for storage, but I would appreciate any idea of the issues involved the
> > anybody would care to shine some light on.
> 
> That should be no problem...except that drives as small as 36Gb are getting
> rare...there are sub-$100 drives up in the 60Gb range now.
> 
> If you can fit everything onto two 60Gb drives then you can get away with
> a basic PC tower and use IDE.
> 
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