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

[Alex Mandel]

It's not a partition limit, its a per file limit.
Fat32 can create up to 2 TB partitions.

But yes if you want to try to split the OS into multiple files for 
different mount points (one for /, /home, /var, etc) that is feasible as 
long as the first one contains the /boot.

But I'm still missing the incentive to increase the size of the distro.

Thanks,
Alex

On 07/09/2013 08:59 AM, Peter Baumann wrote:
> ah, I see - thanks for pointing us to that, Alex!
> Looks difficult indeed for OSGeo Live.
>
> Another idea, maybe wildly impossible: what about allocating 2x 4 GB
> partitions, and mount them after boot?
>
> -Peter
>
>
> On 07/09/2013 05:55 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> 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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>>> Subject: [Live-demo] OSGeo-Live 7.0 - big data version?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
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