[CentOS] fs for > 16 TiB partition

Thu May 7 07:18:04 UTC 2009
Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler at riscworks.net>

thus Pasi Kärkkäinen spake:
> 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

Obviously -- as SGI introduced one of the first, if not *the* first 
64bit machine (R4000) _ages_ (1991!)
ago... ;)