[ILUG] RAID, huge filesystems and data mining.

[Kenn Humborg]

> My best idea about this was to store the whole thing on a single
> filesystem, and use hard links to generate "views" onto the dataset for
> each user.
> 
> The plus side is that setting up a view takes a few seconds at most
> (compared to thousands of seconds for 100-500GB).
> 
> The downside is that the whole thing would need to be on a single
> filesystem, rather than the usual bolt-on-a-few-more-mount-points
> solution.

Is LVM able to handle a volume that size?  If so, you just
bolt-on-a-few-more-partitions into your volume group and
resize2fs/ext2online/whatever.  One filesystem, multiple spindles.

Later,
Kenn