[CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17 at duke.edu
Tue Jan 27 23:46:00 UTC 2009


On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 at 6:43pm, Jake wrote

> I should say that I STRONGLY recommend not creating ext3 file systems in the
> 2TB+ range - fsck takes too long and you'd hate to get hit by one of those
> in what is supposed to be a "quick" reboot...and disabling them on the file
> system isn't a good idea either.

On the other hand, nothing is as well supported on RHEL/CentOS as is ext3. 
So if you're data is really important to you, think hard about using 
another FS.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF



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