[CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

[Sorin Srbu]

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>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
>Of Torres, Giovanni (NIH/NINDS) [C]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 2:34 PM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations
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>On Apr 12, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Matthew Feinberg wrote:
>ext4 does not seem to be fully baked in 5.6 yet. parted 1.8 does not
>support creating ext4 (strange)
>
>The CentOS homepage states that ext4 is now a fully supported filesystem in
>5.6.

I finalized an install with CentOS 5.6 yesterday on a machine that will be our
department fileserver. Ext4 seems to work fine on this raid-array.

In what way is ext4 not "fully baked" on CentOS 5.6?

IIRC, gparted won't be able to manipulate eg ext4 partitions if you don't have
the appropriate ext4 fs-utils installed. I might be wrong though.

OTOH, gparted doesn't see my software raid array either. Gparted it rather
practical for regular plain vanilla partitions, but for more advanced stuff and
filesystems, fdisk is probably better.

My two oere.
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/Sorin