Matthias Saou wrote:
Sandor W. Sklar wrote :
(Not to hijack this subject, but I wish there was some resource or
community that had experience in this area. I'm liberal in politics,
but uber-conservative at work. I don't want to be the "first" to do
something weird, like 8 TB filesystems. I want to learn from the pain
and experience of others. :-)
I've got a few production 12+ TB filesystems which are working just
great. I'm using RHEL5 with XFS. The custom dkms-xfs package and rebuilt
xfsprogs I use can be found here :
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/testing/EL5/xfs/
Note that you should install the proper kernel devel package for your
system for the XFS module to be able to rebuild.
Note also that this is completely unsupported by Red Hat or by me ;-)
Matthias
Before I used a filesystem not officially supported by RH, I would
clarify with RH what it does to our support agreement.
In Red Hat's shoes, I might well say, "Go away or pay lots more
dollars." I'd rather use CentOS than pay money and find there's no
support when I need it.
As to the size of filesystems, I've not tried it myself, but I saw one
report of unacceptable e2fsck times on a filesystem less than one TB (IE
one disk) in size. It's something I intend to try, I don't know whether
it's the software or the user that's broken.
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Cheers
John
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