On Tue, 6 May 2008 at 12:11pm, Ed Morrison wrote > Situation: > My current storage needs are approximately 1.5 TB annually. This will > increase to about 3.5 TB annually over the next 5 years (rough est.). This > box will just be a data archive and once it is full it will only be used very > infrequently if not used at all. Files are small up to 10 MB but numerous. > > CentOS: > Upgrading to the newer CentOS flavors. I will not have the ability to > archive this data to tape and I am concerned about loosing the data when > upgrading the OS. How best to handle this? You have to be careful, but it's quite easy to leave partitions (and thus their data) alone when you are updating/reinstalling the OS. > Storage limitation. It is my understanding that there is a 2 TB storage > limitation with Linux (and windows) in general particularly for stability. I > see that ReiserFS can go up to 16 TB. Is any one using this? If so, how has > it been for you? You cannot boot from a device larger than 2TiB, but that's the only limitation at that size. I run several multi-TB servers (including over 8TB) on CentOS-5 with no issues (using ext3). You do not want to use ReiserFS. It's not supported under CentOS, and it's future is far less than certain (and I do not want to restart *that* OT conversation). ext3 is the default FS under CentOS and works pretty well. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF