[Live-demo] OSGeo-Live 7.0 - big data version?

[Alex Mandel]

You probably hit the file size limit of fat32
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
"The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GiB"

Sadly there is no universal successor to FAT32 that is easily accessible
from all OS, so most external media is still fat32.

NTFS is quite good but doesn't ship with Mac by default
exFAT an attempt to bridge the gap requires work to be used on Linux or Mac
EXT2/3/4 requires drivers to work on windows

More info
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/review-is-microsofts-new-data-sharing-system-a-cross-platform-savior/

Thanks,
Alex

On 07/08/2013 04:32 PM, Baumann, Peter wrote:
> FWIW, we also just hit the wall when trying to get 7 GB on a stick, somehow 4GB seems to be a hard limit. We  have built a rasdaman demo which is a subset of standards.rasdaman.org - what's loaded runs in-situ, everything else will redirect to that site (prending Internet connection). 
> -Peter
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> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 11:00 PM
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> Subject: [Live-demo] OSGeo-Live 7.0 - big data version?
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> On IRC right now we are discussing the possibility of creating a "Big
> Data" version of OSGeo-Live 7.0.
> 
> This will likely be the standard OSGeo-Live (which will still need to
> work stand along), plus an extra data directory which could include big
> data, such as netCDF datasets. This could be distributed as a VM or on
> an 8Gig USB.
> 
> I'm interested to hear thoughts on whether this will work for those
> interested in showing big data on OSGeo-Live.
>