On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:37 AM, James A. Peltier <jpelt...@sfu.ca> wrote:
>
> As someone who has some rather large volumes for research storage I will say
> that ALL of the file systems have limitations, *especially* in the case of
> failures. I have typical volumes that range from 16TB up to 48TB and the big
> issue is when it comes to performing file system checks.
Have you done anything with ceph? With/without a filesystem on top?
> So far, without a doubt, XFS has been the best "overall" file system for our
> usages, but YMMV. It would seem that Red Hat is also pushing it as the file
> system of choice going forward until something better ( btrfs *snicker* )
> comes along. XFS is also the recommended file system for use with GlusterFS
> so that makes it an easy choice too.
>
Is the (snicker) from the slow development or do you think the goals
are impossible? Btrfs on top of ceph sounds as good as a
posix-looking fs could get.
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Les Mikesell
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