[CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

Wed Apr 13 00:19:24 UTC 2011
Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>

On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:36 PM, John Jasen wrote:
> On 04/12/2011 10:21 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Alain Péan
>> <alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr
>> <mailto:alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr>>  wrote:
>
> <snipped: two recommendations for XFS>
>
> I would chime in with a dis-commendation for XFS. At my previous
> employer, two cases involving XFS resulted in irrecoverable data
> corruption. These were on RAID systems running from 4 to 20 TB.
>
>

What were those circumstances? Crash? Power outage? What are the 
components of the RAID systems?