On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:30, Masopust, Christian < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > Götz Reinicke wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > we plan to set up a big file storage for media files like > > uncompressed > > > movies from student film projects, dvd images etc. > > > > > > It should be some sort of archive and will not bee accessed > > by more than > > > may be 5 people at the same time. > > > > > > The iSCSI RAID we have is about 26TB netto and I'm again > > faced with the > > > question: How many partitions, which filesystem, which > > mount options etc. > > > > > > For the User it would be the most simpel thing, to have one big > > > filesystem she/he could fill with all the data and dont has > > to search > > > e.g. on multiple volumes. > > > > > > On the other hand, if one big filesystem crashes or has do > > be checked it > > > will destroy a lot of data or the check will take hours ... > > > > > > > > > Any suggestions pro or cons are welcome! :-) > > > > > > My favourite for now is 3 to 4 filesystems with the default ext4 > > > settings. (Redhat EL 5.7, may be soon 6.1) > > > > > > Thanks and best regards. Götz > > > > If you decide to go with RHEL6, xfs is a good bet for making one big > > filesystem. We have a setup similar to what you're > > describing and have > > had very solid stability and performance using xfs (default > > filesystem > > and mount settings.) As far as I can see (and knocking on > > wood), xfs is > > now a lot less flaky than it seemed to be in the past. > > > > -Peter > > I can approve what Peter mentioned. I've been using xfs on my > CentOS 5 system with 2 16TB arrays (each holding one single filesystem) > for several years with absolutely no issues! > > So in his intial request he mentioned concern about fsck times. How has this been for you guys (Christian and Peter) ? fwiw, I'm actually mixing both xfs with 30+TB total file system and gluster in a different use case... I just haven't had to fsck a system yet so I am very curious about how that is performing for others. -greg
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