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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061006/822874de/attachment-0005.sig>