On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 06:06 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
While I dont really want to take this further on this list, let me point to you the RHEL 4 U1 release notes. "The ext2 and ext3 filesystems have an internal limit of 8 TB. Devices up to this limit have been tested in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 1."
And I understand it has even been raised to 17.6TB (16TiB) now. That's _not_ what I'm talking about.
This is not a filesystem limitation
But lack of a good set of safe, trusted user-space utilities for the filesystem are. Red Hat offers a non-filesystem utility, star. That's not good for enterprises. And the more Red Hat tries to distract people from that, the more they are denying what they cannot offer.
That's _exactly_ the self-defeating marketing I'm talking about.