[CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:37:15 AM Christopher Chan wrote:
>> I used XFS extensively when I was running mail server farms for the
mail queue filesystem and I only remember one or two incidents when the
filesystem was marked read-only for no reason (seemingly - never had
the time to find out why) but a reboot fixed those.
>
> I've had that happen, recently, with ext3 on CentOS 4.

I've had that happen, also. It usually indicates a drive dying.

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