Hi.
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:37:27AM -0500, Thomas King ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I asked the author that question and he states XFS is actually a pretty good
> answer to most of those issues but believes it still falls short where "the
> metadata areas are not aligned with RAID strips and allocation units are FAR
> too
> small but better than ext." Another detail he brought out was sending data and
> metadata to different devices in those environments and referenced RT XFS.
> Otherwise having them on the same device increases the possibility of
> corruption
> and/or a longer filesystem check/repair. Will btrfs offer something like this
> in
> the future?
Right now btrfs can be created on top of multiple devices.
AFAIK, there are no policies on hwo to put data and metadata between them.
> Do y'all foresee btrfs being used in exabtye installations?
> Does/Will btrfs have RAID awareness in that it will align "the
> superblock and metadata to the RAID stripe"?
> What is the largest block allocation available?
> Will btrfs be T10 DIF/block protect aware?
> I remember reading that CRFS relies on btrfs, but will btrfs support NFS,
> specifically version 4.1?
Original author does not belive in networked filesystem as a key method
to organize large storages :)
Changes to filesystem are quite simple in order fs would be exported via
NFS, so that should not be a problem.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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