> 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! Christian _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
