[CentOS] What FileSystems for large stores and very very large stores?

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:37 AM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote:
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> As someone who has some rather large volumes for research storage I will say that ALL of the file systems have limitations, *especially* in the case of failures.  I have typical volumes that range from 16TB up to 48TB and the big issue is when it comes to performing file system checks.

Have you done anything with ceph?  With/without a filesystem on top?

> So far, without a doubt, XFS has been the best "overall" file system for our usages, but YMMV.  It would seem that Red Hat is also pushing it as the file system of choice going forward until something better ( btrfs *snicker* ) comes along.  XFS is also the recommended file system for use with GlusterFS so that makes it an easy choice too.
>

Is the (snicker) from the slow development or do you think the goals
are impossible?    Btrfs on top of ceph sounds as good as a
posix-looking fs could get.

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