On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:32:14PM -0700, John R Pierce spake thusly:
I've been asked for ideas on building a rather large archival storage system for inhouse use, on the order of 100-400TB. Probably using CentOS 6. The existing system this would replace is using Solaris 10 and ZFS, but I want to explore using Linux instead.
If you don't need a POSIX filesystem interface check out MogileFS. It could greatly simplify a lot of these scalability issues.