> For the first time I will be using a 1-2 Terrabyte hard drive on any SL > release, in particular, on an older SL5.0 (boron) OS. > > There's plenty on the web about pros and cons for larger file systems > (resier, xfs, ext3, ext4, ...). I've usually stayed with ext3 (200-500 > Gb HD that are NFS mounted to linux or windows using MS windows for unix). > So, vanilla; not too splashy a set up. No clusters. I've not used LVM. > > I think my question is which of these choices is as well developed, > mature, and easy to use as ext3 for the SL5.0 boron version of SL? I'm > most familiar with ext3 and do these stray IT tasks as needed, so I've not > kept up on the latest and greatest. > > Thanks for any comments, > Bill Lutter >
Hi Bill - I'm running a data server with SL5.2. I have several 2-6TB filesystems and one ~21TB filesystem, all hanging off a few 3ware cards. The system has grown a bit piecemeal as our needs expanded, so there's no grand design here - basically what I could get to work. The 2-6TB filesystems are ext3. The 21TB filesystem is xfs (to echo a previous comment, make sure you use parted or similar rather than fdisk when creating a large filesystem and make a gpt label). BTW, the system is of course 64bit if that has an impact on xfs filesystems. I can say that I've been running like this for about 2-3 years with not a single issue. Granted, the server is not under a huge load, basically archive data, retrieve/access on a daily sort of timescale - ie. people grabbing a few tens of ~100MB files on a daily basis. YMMV, but that's a data point for you! -Karl -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Karl A. Misselt Office: Steward 254 | | Steward Observatory Phone: 520-626-0196 | | University of Arizona FAX: 520-621-9555 | | Tucson, AZ 85721-0065 miss...@as.arizona.edu | --------------------------------------------------------------------