On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Phelps, Matt <mphe...@cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
> I'd highly recommend getting a NetApp storage device for something that big.
>
> It's more expensive up front, but the amount of heartache/time saved in the
> long run is WELL worth it.
>
My vote would be for a ZFS-based storage solution, be it
homegrown or appliance (like nextenta). Remember, as far as ZFS (and
similar filesystems whose acronyms are more than 3 letters) is
concerned, a petabyte is still small fry.
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator <
> goetz.reini...@filmakademie.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> over time the requirements and possibilities regarding filesystems
>> changed for our users.
>>
>> currently I'm faced with the question:
>>
>> What might be a good way to provide one big filesystem for a few users
>> which could also be enlarged; backuping the data is not the question.
>>
>> Big in that context is up to couple of 100 TB may be.
>>
>> O.K. I could install one hardware raid with e.g. N big drives format
>> with xfs. And export one big share. Done.
>>
>> On the other hand, e.g. using 60 4 TB Disks in one storage would be a
>> lot of space, but a nightmare in rebuilding on a disk crash.
>>
>> Now if the share fills up, my users "complain", that they usually get a
>> new share (what is a new raidbox).
>>
>> From my POV I could e.g. use hardware raidboxes, and use LVM and
>> filesystem growth options to extend the final share, but what if one of
>> the boxes crash totally? The whole Filesystem would be gone.
>>
>> hm.
>>
>> So how do you handle big filesystems/storages/shares?
>>
>> Regards . Götz
>>
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