[CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

Mon May 5 18:19:54 UTC 2008
Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org>

Martyn Drake wrote:
> 
> Having worked for a large film and television post-production facility
> in London for just over six years, XFS has been the primary filesystem
> for all our servers.  Much of the data was split across multiple disk
> servers - each with around 2-3Tb of data.  The whole filesystem was
> presented to the workstations over NFS with scripts to manage links to
> the different file servers - presenting a unified filesystem to the
> artist.  XFS had given us the performance and reliability required and
> has gotten us out of some nasty scrapes.

Well, XFS was designed exactly for the kind of scenario you're 
describing. No wonder it performs really well in that sort of situation.

-- 
Florin Andrei

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