[CentOS] fs for > 16 TiB partition

Wed May 6 09:12:27 UTC 2009
Adrian Sevcenco <Adrian.Sevcenco at cern.ch>

Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Adrian Sevcenco schrieb:
>> Hi,
>> What would you recommend as an FS for an partition greater than 16 TiB?
>> This is for an production server (that is, no ext4 recommendations
>> please :) )
>> What experiences did you had with your preferred FS ? (good and not so
>> good points)
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Adrian
>>   
> 
> 
> Does anybody actually run such a thing on Linux?
We will .. 2 X RAID6 each with 12 drives (24 drives machine)
with 2 TB drives .. that is 20 TBs each volume

> How long does a FSCK take once it's 80% populated?
i strongly hope that i will never know :))
it have 2 redundant PSU each on different ups ...

> How much RAM does that need?
minimal .. is an storage only machine so 4 GB is enough as the
connection is only GigE

> The FSCK on my Virtuozzo-partition takes long enough - and it's only 500
> GB or so.
Even for home its efficient to have an ups for each machine..

Adrian

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