Adrian Sevcenco schrieb: > 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 .. That's not what I was asking ;-) > 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 will fsck every n'th reboot anyway, or after so-and-so many days without fsck, after a reboot. > 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 > > I asked about the FSCK. Usually, it requires some RAM, too. >> 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.. > It's running in a datacenter with UPSs. But once I reboot it, it it's the "fsck-every-n-days" thing. I don't think it's a good idea to disable that behaviour. Rainer