[CentOS] fs for > 16 TiB partition

Thu May 7 07:05:01 UTC 2009
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:27:27AM +0200, Bent Terp wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Adrian Sevcenco
> <Adrian.Sevcenco at cern.ch> wrote:
> > 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)
> 
> We've got a 110 TB xfs system in production based on a logical volume
> striped over 9 boxes of SATA disk, works like a charm with great
> throughput as we stripe over 3 controllers :-)
> 

Are you running x86 32bit or x86_64 ? 

iirc there has been problems with XFS on 32bit kernel.. stack size related
or so? So 64bit has been the recommended way to go..

-- Pasi