On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:46 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17@duke.edu wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 at 6:43pm, Jake wrote
I should say that I STRONGLY recommend not creating ext3 file systems in the 2TB+ range - fsck takes too long and you'd hate to get hit by one of those in what is supposed to be a "quick" reboot...and disabling them on the file system isn't a good idea either.
On the other hand, nothing is as well supported on RHEL/CentOS as is ext3. So if you're data is really important to you, think hard about using another FS.
This is sound advice.
Best way is probably to use lvm and create multiple 2TB LVs with ext3. Disable auto-fsck and look at doing proactive online fsck. There was a post about a month ago on performing online fscks with snapshots.
For that kind of storage I might look at Solaris and ZFS though.
-Ross