On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:40:21PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:09:48PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > I think it *theoretically* should work as ext3 should to 16TB. > > > > However, we ran into issues with userland tools and such. Possibly > > > > related to x86_64 vs i386 stuff, but in the end to avoid continued > > > > troubleshooting we just used centosplus + jfs. Works > > > > perfectly for our > > > > 10TB filesystem. > > > > > > I'm curious what you store that you need 10TB of linear storage? > > > > > > I have had 4-6-8TB storage systems, but the storage was always > > > divvied up between different applications. > > > > > > -Ross > > > > > > > It's almost all Oracle database dump files... one database by itself is > > 4.5TB! Don't ask me what's in these things... :) > > Ah, should have figured it was for backup. > > 4.5TB, wow, sounds like financial forecasting or geographic survey data... The latter I'm sure. I work at ESRI :) Ray