On 4/12/2013 12:11 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Interesting. We're still playing with sizing the RAID sets and volumes. The prime consideration for this is that the filesystem utils still have problems with > 16TB (and they appear to have been saying that fixing this is a priority for at least a year or two <g>), so we wanted to get close to that.
I've had no issues with 64bit CentOS 6.2+ on 81TB (74TiB) volumes using GPT and XFS(*), with or without LVM.
(*) NFS has an issue with large XFS volumes if you export directories below the root and those directories have large inode numbers. the workarounds are to either precreate all directories that are to be exported before filling up the disk, or specify arbitrary ID#'s less than 2^32 on the NFS export using fsid=nnn in the /etc/exports entry for these paths (these ID values have to be unique on that host). this is a stupid bug in NFS itself that gets triggered by XFSs use of 64bit inode numbers.