pro's / con's of multi-terabyte filesystems - Summary

From: <kev.smith_at_rbs.com>
Date: Mon Jan 05 2009 - 11:03:25 EST
Thanks to George Cebulka, Damir Delija, Rachel Polanskis, Stan Horwitz, Joe
Fletcher [ Hello Joe(ex citi) ! ] for their informative responses which
included:

Comments on ZFS' useability for large filesystems and the use of RAIDz,
caveat's for UFS [logging, restoreability ETC]. Various mount caveats for
i-node allocation over 1TB etc.
Informative Reading :
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.solaris/browse_thread/thread/ac5fb46
07ab7677b/488c46f504793e76

>> Given that the exisiting volume is a 1TB EMC/VxVM BCV braid we will be
going to a 2TB VXFS Filesystem rather than 2 x 1TB Filesystem's.

Kev Smith

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