[CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

Thu Apr 14 14:15:10 UTC 2011
Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>

>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
>Of Peter Kjellström
>Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:31 PM
>To: centos at centos.org
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations
>
>On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 03:10:33 PM Lars Hecking wrote:
>> > OTOH, gparted doesn't see my software raid array either. Gparted it
>> > rather practical for regular plain vanilla partitions, but for more
>> > advanced stuff and filesystems, fdisk is probably better.
>>
>>  For filersystems > 2TB, you're better off grabbing a copy of GPT fdisk.
>
>Even better, use LVM and stay away from partitioning completely.

Wasn't there some gotchas' regarding LVM's and ext4?? I might be imagining
things things...
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/Sorin