[CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Fri Aug 28 17:13:50 UTC 2009


Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 at 8:58am, Akemi Yagi wrote
> 
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain<jlb17 at duke.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You do not have to switch to 64bit, and your setup should be fully
>>> supported.  Other folks have mentioned XFS, and that's an option.
>>>  But if
>>> you want to stay fully compatible with upstream, then ext3 is your only
>>> option.
>>
>> Support for xfs has been added to RHEL 5.4 which will be released any
>> day now.
> 
> So it has.  I recall looking in the beta release notes when they first
> came out and not seeing it.  So either I just plain missed it or it's
> been added there since then.  In any case, that's great news and
> something that is *long* overdue.
> 

Please note that it is not unheard of for them to PULL things that they
have in the beta when rolling out the release.

In this case, I certainly hope that they do not do this, but it is possible.

Lets hope they do keep XFS in there.

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