Pretty soon we will see even larger disks. My company uses a lot of digitized maps of the
the city to regulate sewers, water-pipes, traffic-lights, and a lot of other stuff. Needs BIG disks
for this.
I really think it is needed to make Linux handle bigger files. 2 GB today is not actually big
anymore.
Like teunis said in an earlier posting, why not look into scalable filesystems. Difficukt, sure,
impossible, no-way!
To those afraid of compatibility problems, continue to use the ext2 filesystem.
What about video storage in databases? 2 GB is *NOT* enough for a single
full-length mpeg-video. Why ramble about this? Well, I can see a few years ahead that the
normal video-rental companies no longer rent cassettes, but you dial in and order a movie
from their database. They need big files...
> You might have a problem just "seeing" all those drives on a Linux system
> - the current device major/minor size supports only 16 SCSI drives. This
> is not to say that the 31-bit file size limitation should not be removed,
> but it's not the only problem Linux has with big-iron systems.
Yupp.. Linux needs to revise that area and extend the support of SCSI devices a bit..
Svein Erik Brostigen
Special Consultant/Oslo Kommune - KSR
/* Handling 34 Oracle servers is no problems, the users are! */