Le 12/04/2011 09:23, Matthew Feinberg a écrit : > 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. > > 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? Hi Matthew, I would go for xfs, which is now supported in CentOS. This is what I use for a 16 TB storage, with CentOS 5.3 (Rocks Cluster), and it woks fine. No problem with lengthy fsck, as with ext3 (which does not support such capacities). I did not try yet ext4... Alain -- ========================================================== Alain Péan - LPP/CNRS Administrateur Système/Réseau Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas - UMR 7648 Observatoire de Saint-Maur 4, av de Neptune, Bat. A 94100 Saint-Maur des Fossés Tel : 01-45-11-42-39 - Fax : 01-48-89-44-33 ==========================================================