[CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Marian Marinov <mm at yuhu.biz> wrote:
>>
>> I'm managing machines with 30TB of storage for more then two years. And
>> with good reporting and reaction we have never had to run fsck.
>>
>> However I'm sure that if you have to run fsck on so big file systems, it
>> will be fater to rebuild the array from other storage then waiting for
a few
>> weeks to finish.
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Here's a question: which would be faster on that huge a filesystem: fsck,
or having a second 30TB filesystem, and rsyncing everything over?

          mark