On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Nick Stephens <n...@ceiva.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I recently purchased a PE610 with a PERC6 card attached to an MD1000 > with about 26TB of space. How soon do you need to put this into production? > I know from my own research that ext4 > supports up to an exabyte, however it appears that the e2fs team has not > yet created a mkfs.ext4 that supports anything bigger than 16TB. > > I have played with XFS in the past, and sadly it's performance is > severely lacking for our environment, so it is not an option. > > I am very interested in ZFS, but it seems like it will never make it (in > a stable fashion) into the linux world at this rate. > > Does anyone have any tips or tricks for this scenario? I am utilizing > RHEL5 based installations, btw. > If you can afford to either: -Wait for RHEL6 -Run a RHEL6 beta then you may also want to consider using btrfs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs) In case you *really* need a single 26TB filesystem, btrfs offers significant advantages over ext4, especially online fsck, subvolumes, subvolume snapshots etc. Regards, Buchan
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