On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 14:42 -0700, Gustin Johnson wrote: > Royce Souther wrote: > <snip> > > VMware will build virtual hard drives that are split up in to 2G files. > > This may not help because the drive images must be on a local native > > system. > You do not *have* to do this. NTFS and ext2/3/4 (as well as most other > file systems supported under Linux such as xfs, jfs, reiser 3/4 etc.) > support file sizes larger than 2G > > > > My last though is, what kind of idiot designs a NAS to use vfat? Doesn't > > it have a 32G maximum file system limit? > > > 32 GiB is a Microsoft limitation and it is intentional. Win 9x/me with > an updated checkdsk.exe could support 127 GiB. In theory fat32 could > support up to 8 TiB but the boot sector uses a 32 bit sector count, > limiting the maximum size to 2 TiB. > > I am a big fan of my DNS 323 (I am probably going to get a DNS 343 > soon). It has linux on board which you can extend to support things > like svn, rsync, and ssh (I use those three a lot actually). I got burned on the Seagate drive fiasco and had to move all my data off my "old" DNS-323 to my "new" DNS-323. Installing rsync was a piece of cake but the actual xfer took days to move 460GB. I even had them both connected to a D-Link Gb switch (unmanaged).
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