[CentOS] fs for > 16 TiB partition

[John R Pierce]

Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> BTW: ext3 handles "Out of power" corruptions better than xfs does.
>   


power failure is -not- the only cause of this sort of condition...   
noone here has ever had a kernel panic?     I had a perfectly good 
server panic shortly after a cooling fan had failed combined with 
above-normal room temperatures due to somewhat overloaded HVAC.     CPU 
got hot (but not hot enough to trigger its thermal trip) and get some 
kind of cache error that was a fatal bugcheck in the CPU.

I'm somewhat surprised the Linux community hasn't embraced IBM's JFS... 
I know its supported in many distributions (but not RH natively), 
however its out there in the "also runs" department.   Being rather 
conservative by nature,  I've only used JFS with AIX due to this, but 
found it to be a -very- robust file system with very good all around 
performance in a wide range of scenarios (really big files, as well as 
really large numbers of small files).