[CentOS] Calling All FS Fanatics

Fri Oct 6 07:17:02 UTC 2006
Peter Kjellström <cap at nsc.liu.se>

On Thursday 05 October 2006 17:58, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Kirk Bocek wrote:
> > 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?
>
> And how do you backup that much data?

This perticular system is just for scratch, filesystems mounted on the very 
descriptive /nobackup/...

But if I wanted to I could back it up using our IBM TSM system (fully 
incremental backup systems can take these kind of volumes).

/Peter
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