[rescue] Re: how to utilize multiple tape drives in the same library/silo with Amanda...

[Dave McGuire]

On July 22, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >   Now, this is an "old" attitude; many newer filesystem technologies
> > (i.e. logging filesystems) don't require fscking, and are much MUCH
> > more resilient in the face of a system crash...but many folks seem to
> > think that means they're impervious to ANY sort of failure, and can
> > never become corrupted.  This is simply not true.
> 
> What is the maximum size that someone should use?  My understanding is

  There is no hard & fast rule for this.

> that it is a real pain to get mysql and postgres to split a table
> amoung multiple file systems.  Not that this is a pressing problem at
> the moment for me.

  A single table that big?  I've done some big databases, but never
quite THAT big.  There's got to be a way to split something like that
up.

     -Dave

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