On 4/10/2013 2:12 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:50 PM, John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: >> > >> >I would under NO conditions make a EXT3 volume anywheres NEAR as big as >> >you're talking about. my preference for large volumes is XFS. > Is there some rule of thumb for how much RAM the system should have for that? I've been putting 24-48GB in my servers with large multiterabyte XFS volumes. so far, I haven't had any issues. Some of these systems have 74TiB file systems (81 TB), primarily used as long term retention archival nearline storage. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast