Just wondering if any one ever consider/use Coraid for massive storage under CentOS? http://www.coraid.com It seems like a very reasonable option.. comments ? I$ilon could also be a option for petabytes storage http://www.isilon.com/products/index.php mslist at opcenter.net wrote: > To start I wish to that you for the swift response on this > issue. I do not think that I would get such a quick > response from a proprietary (closed-source) company. Open > Source :-). > > To respond to one the comments about large file systems > “recommend you split it in several smaller (2-4TB) > filesystems “ > This is not feasible in many situations. In some > situations 2-4TB is not even a reasonable starting point. > > A little background. > I have been using RH from v2 to v9. and in v9 I did get an > install ISO of RH9 that included XFS support. Way back > then I used it on a 1.4TB PATA hardware raid 5 (A lot of > disk for it time). The system is still operational with > out any FS issues short of failed drives. Fixed with the > hot spares on the system. in five years of operation the > system has had one outage a maintenance reboot Less then > 2min down). After RH9 I switched to Centos. > > The system that I am currently configuring with 7+ TB of > storage is one of the smaller storage servers for our > systems. Using the same configuration with more drives we > are planning several 20TB+ systems. > > For the work we do a single file system over 100TB is not > unreasonable. We will be replacing a 80TB SAN system based > on StorNext with a Isilon system with 10G network > connections. > > If there was a way to create a Linux (Centos) 100TB – > 500TB or larger clustered file system with the nodes > connected via infiniband that was easily manageable with > throughput that can support multiple 10Gbps Ethernet > connections I would be very interested. > > And once more thanks for the fast response. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos