Re: BIG filesystems, Big Files, Transparent Compression?
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:21:26PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote:
> Background info:.....................................
> My employer has large amounts (10GB/day) of telecommunications
> related billing data that in it's raw form is BIG (1-2GB ea) flat
Just gzip each file down to < 1GB. Buy a couple 200GB hard drives and put
them in an ordinary computer. Keep a years worth of data online.
Use Gigabit ethernet to shoomp the files around real fast.
It really sounds like you're after total overkill.
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