If you enable the sl-other repository ZFS is also now an option to try as well.
- Chris Brown -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Connie Sieh Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:25 PM To: Ray Van Dolson Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Large filesystem recommendation On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:59:03PM -0400, John Lauro wrote: >> What is recommended for a large file system (40TB) under SL6? >> >> In the past I have always had good luck with jfs. Might not be the >> fastest, but very stable. It works well with being able to repair >> huge filesystems in reasonable amount of RAM, and handle large >> directories, and large files. Unfortunately jfs doesn't appear to be >> supported in 6? (or is there a repo I can add?) >> >> >> Besides for support of 40+TB filesystem, also need support of files >>> 4TB, and directories with hundreds of thousands of files. What do >>> people recommend? > > Echoing what others have said, sounds like XFS might be the best > option if you can find a repository with a quality version (EPEL > perhaps?) Do you have issues with the xfs that is provided in SL 6? -Connie Sieh > > Interesting on the Backblaze and ext4 thing. While ext4 itself may > support this larger file system size, I'm not sure if the "default" > ext4tools will?? Could be a risk to investigate if you go this route. > > Other options I can think of: > > - btrfs (not sure if something like EPEL provides a release with this) > - ZFS on Linux (for the adventurous only, but I believe they have a > version that works well with RHEL). > > Personally, I'd go XFS. > > Ray >
