And just to add to the discussion...

We use JFS here for large filesystems.  :)  (We have some 24TB filesystems in place here using JFS, with no problems like XFS has when it gets corrupted).

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Akemi Yagi" <amyagi@gmail.com>
To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos@centos.org>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 11:58:27 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain<jlb17@duke.edu> wrote:

> You do not have to switch to 64bit, and your setup should be fully
> supported.  Other folks have mentioned XFS, and that's an option.  But if
> you want to stay fully compatible with upstream, then ext3 is your only
> option.

Support for xfs has been added to RHEL 5.4 which will be released any day now.

Akemi
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