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

[Fred James]

Thanks, all - even if Linux still has a 2GB file size limit, none of the
individual files being stored are that big (as yet) - as long as ftp
doesn't have a files size limit I'm OK there.

"George E. Lass" wrote:
> 
> 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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