[CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB
Monty Shinn
montys at videopost.com
Mon May 5 18:27:56 UTC 2008
Florin Andrei wrote:
> Martyn Drake wrote:
>>
>> Having worked for a large film and television post-production facility
>> in London for just over six years, XFS has been the primary filesystem
>> for all our servers. Much of the data was split across multiple disk
>> servers - each with around 2-3Tb of data. The whole filesystem was
>> presented to the workstations over NFS with scripts to manage links to
>> the different file servers - presenting a unified filesystem to the
>> artist. XFS had given us the performance and reliability required and
>> has gotten us out of some nasty scrapes.
>
> Well, XFS was designed exactly for the kind of scenario you're
> describing. No wonder it performs really well in that sort of situation.
>
Thanks to all for your help. I decided to go with XFS, since it could
be loaded as a module and I have worked with it on SGI platforms for years.
Thanks again.
Monty
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