[ale] What is the largest volume possible?

[Newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu (Dan Newcombe)]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Tony Rose wrote:
> I am looking for a cheap solution for a large storage box. If I put RH9 on a
> system that suppose, say a, 300GB drive and install it with ext3, will that
> be stable? If not, how big can I go? Does anyone have experience putting
> Linux on cheap drives this large?

We have ext3 on a 250MB drive no problem.  Also, we have a 1.12TB
partition (bunch o' RAID drives - looks like one drive to the OS).

I'd worry more about the drive failing than I would the OS having issues.