create big file system
 

Dear all,
as we all see that yahoo and google give a big size to there users how this i think there is a linux file system that can format 120 GB Harddesk to be big more than this or some thing like this, can any one tell how can i create a server with a big HD storage
i need more information about this and good links to do this.
Thank you.

Sorry, I don't understand your question. What do you want to achieve? A storage server?

Do you mean format a 120GB drive so that it provides more than 120GB? Kinda like what DBLSPACE did back in the DOS days?

linux large file system
 

Dear,
i mean that i see many hosting company give plans start from 1GB or 2GB that mean if they have a server with 120GB they will sale for about 100 client only so my question is that is there a new file system like ext3 or other that can format a 120GB harddesk to be 256GB for example or something like this.

thank you.

Re: linux large file system
 

firstly, yahoo and google don't use 120GB hard disks :)
they may have some san storage with hundreds of TB.

Anyway, for the sake of argument there are filesystems that do transparent compression. That way, you don't see a 120GB disk
as 256GB. You see it as a 120GB disk but because files are compressed you can have more data than 120GB.
The first drawback is that they have a perfomance hit since all read/write operations use much cpu time for the (de)compression.
The second drawback is that the compression depends on the data (as always). If you have a news server with many tiny
text data then you have high compression. If you have divx movies or mp3 then you have almost no compression.

I don't know what was the meaning of your question, but i hope i helped.