On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Alain Péan <alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr> wrote: > Le 24/06/2011 03:44, Marian Marinov a écrit : >> On Friday 24 June 2011 04:34:20 Smithies, Russell wrote: >>> We have a single 27TB partition (35 x 1TB drives as RAID5+0 in an HP >>> MDS600), just formatted it xfs and had no problems with it so far. It's >>> used as scratch space so not too concerned about performance. >>> >>> --Russell >>> >> I have compared the performance of both XFS and Ext4. And since I use those >> big machines for backups, for me the write performance was very important. >> XFS was almost twice slower. >> >> But lets leave XFS alone :) Ext4 is the way to go :) >> >> Marian > > I am using XFS on an HPC cluster, one single partition of 14 TB, with no > problem so far. > > See this news on Phoronix. XFS is becoming cleaner and leaner. I am > happy to use ext4 instead of ext3 on usual partitions, but XFS on big > partitions seems to me still a good choice. Let's see what happens in > the future. > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTU4OA > > Alain Btrfs happens in the future. :-)