Dr D J Colling <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> This is actually pretty important.
>
> If I understand it correctly it means that we are limited to 2TB fs (am I
> correct?). Our last four or five disk servers came with just over 3TB of
> disk and we have just had two 6TB disk servers delivered. We had planned
> to install DPM on these machines (an action from the dteam meeting)
>
> So my point is that while 20TB as a single file system is still
> exceptional, file systems larger than 2TB are common place.
>
> So, please can people close to the DPM developers try to persuade them
> that this deserves some priority (assuming that my understand is correct
> ... and I would be grateful if people could correct it if it isn't).
>
>
> All the best,
> david
Hi David,
We will feed this back to them. I agree completely.
For the time being it is a good idea to try to partition them into ~1TB
chunks (if possible).
-Phil
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