On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Adrian Sevcenco Adrian.Sevcenco@cern.ch wrote:
Hi, What would you recommend as an FS for an partition greater than 16 TiB? This is for an production server (that is, no ext4 recommendations please :) ) What experiences did you had with your preferred FS ? (good and not so good points)
We've got a 110 TB xfs system in production based on a logical volume striped over 9 boxes of SATA disk, works like a charm with great throughput as we stripe over 3 controllers :-)
Only whoopsie in 18+ months was when we recently added 3 more disk boxes and I grew the filesystem. First attempt xfs_grow only added a fraction of the available space. Second attempt gave a kernel panic. Reboot and everything was fine with all space available.
Lesson learned: don't use xfs_grow unless you're in the general vicinity of the server ;-)
regards, Bent