On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:46 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 at 6:43pm, Jake wrote > >> I should say that I STRONGLY recommend not creating ext3 file >> systems in the >> 2TB+ range - fsck takes too long and you'd hate to get hit by one >> of those >> in what is supposed to be a "quick" reboot...and disabling them on >> the file >> system isn't a good idea either. > > On the other hand, nothing is as well supported on RHEL/CentOS as is > ext3. > So if you're data is really important to you, think hard about using > another FS. This is sound advice. Best way is probably to use lvm and create multiple 2TB LVs with ext3. Disable auto-fsck and look at doing proactive online fsck. There was a post about a month ago on performing online fscks with snapshots. For that kind of storage I might look at Solaris and ZFS though. -Ross