[CentOS] Calling All FS Fanatics

Thu Oct 5 15:45:11 UTC 2006
Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com>


Peter Kjellström wrote:
> I use XFS on Centos-4 here with 9500-S and 9550-SX. The load is quite heavy 
> (~30 climate modelling people) and the volume not tiny (~40 TiB). This system 
> works fine and I have no problems sleeping at night. But then again, if you 
> want data security you'll have to run backups anyway. Any filesystem can die.

Oh, yea, backups! :)

Heck, 30 users and 40 tibibytes of data is a pretty good stress test.
How long have you been running XFS in this setup?