On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Matthew Feinberg <matthew at choopa.com> wrote: > Hello All > > I have a brand spanking new 40TB Hardware Raid6 array to play around > with. I am looking for recommendations for which filesystem to use. I am > trying not to break this up into multiple file systems as we are going > to use it for backups. Other factors is performance and reliability. We've been very happy with XFS, as it allows us to add diskspace through LVM and grow the filesystem online - we've had to reboot the server when we add new diskenclosures, but that's not XFS's fault... BR Bent > > CentOS 5.6 > > array is /dev/sdb > > So here is what I have tried so far > reiserfs is limited to 16TB > ext4 does not seem to be fully baked in 5.6 yet. parted 1.8 does not > support creating ext4 (strange) > > Anyone work with large filesystems like this that have any > suggestions/recommendations? > > -- > Matthew Feinberg > matthew at choopa.com > AIM: matthewchoopa > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >