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From: peno@kps.UUCP (Pekka Nousiainen /DP)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Large file systems
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Date: 6 May 89 09:05:03 GMT
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Reply-To: peno@kps.UUCP (Pekka Nousiainen /DP)
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> What I would like to know is if anyone has found problems with large
> partition sizes (up to 2 or 3 GB).

There's one practical problem with dump: To restore one file you may have
to read through several tapes.  This can be a problem if the file system
is used for "/users".  Apart from this I can't think of any problems.
I use a 1 GB system for /spool in production (7 tapes), in the future
it could be 2 GB concatenated on 2 drives.  The dumps are meant mainly
to cover disk failure, not random "rm *"'s by careless users.

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