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Re: dump/restore

From: Tom Walker (email_suppressed_at_lugwash.org)
Date: Tue 05-Apr-2005 03:41:49 PM EDT

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How many zeros in an exabyte? I didn't know there was such a thing.
My Spell checker doesn't even know the word.
TW

David Brodbeck wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Tom Allison [mailto:[e-mail suppressed]]
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>>>All the other local filesystems have larger limits. NFSv2
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>>and smbfs still have 2 gigabyte limits.
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>>This is important.
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>>Probably not a good idea to use NFS mounted directories for storing
>>backup files without checking on this first. What about
>>other versions
>>of NFS?
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>NFSv3 is supposed to be good out to 8 exabytes. For SMB shares, use CIFS
>instead of smbfs.
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