Am 28.10.11 11:11, schrieb Rajagopal Swaminathan: > Greetings, > > 2011/10/28 Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>: >> Hi, >> >> >> The iSCSI RAID we have is about 26TB netto and I'm again faced with the >> question: How many partitions, which filesystem, which mount options etc. >> >> My favourite for now is 3 to 4 filesystems with the default ext4 >> settings. (Redhat EL 5.7, may be soon 6.1) >> > > > You should seriously consider XFS (supported natively in RHEL and > hence Centos 6) for any single filesystem >16TB. (EXT4 supports only > upto 16TB) > > If you are going to have an RHCS for HA, then GFS2. But I cant comment > on its performance for streaming applications etc. > Thanks for your suggestions! I'll have a look at XFS. BTW: We will not use that storage for streaming! It is 'just' a big space for files with ftp and smb access. Regards . Götz -- Götz Reinicke IT-Koordinator Tel. +49 7141 969 420 Fax +49 7141 969 55 420 E-Mail goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH Akademiehof 10 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de Eintragung Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 205016 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Jürgen Walter MdL Staatssekretär im Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg Geschäftsführer: Prof. Thomas Schadt