Re: > 16TB worth of data question

> FWIW, FreeBSD's UFS filesystem doesn't suffer from the 2G limit. It's
> limit is something like 4TB iirc.

If the data itself is large (i.e. - large images not just large # of
images), I'd go with an XFS filesystem.  It has a 5 petabyte limit, and
for large sequential reads, it has almost full-disk speed.

Jon

>
> I'll also second the opinion that if you're really going to put that
> much data in your database, x86 hardware might not be a good idea.
> However, I'd recommend RS/6000 over Sun if you can afford it; for
> Oracle, the standard is that you only need 1/2 the CPUs in RS/6000 as
> you would in a Sun, because RS/6000 puts heavy emphasis on memory
> bandwidth.
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 01:23:55PM -0500, Jeremiah Jahn wrote:
> > I have a system that will store about 2TB+ of images per year in a PG
> > database. Linux unfortunatly has the 16TB limit for 32bit systems. Not
> > really sure what should be done here. Would life better to not store the
> > images as BLOBS, and instead come up with some complicated way to only
> > store the location in the database, or is there someway to have postgres
> > handle this somehow? What are other people out there doing about this
> > sort of thing?
> >
> > thanx,
> > -jj-
> >
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