Eliezer Croitoru wrote: <snip> > I was considering using GlusterFS for a very large storage system with > NFS front. > I am still unsure EXT4 should or shouldn't be able to handle more then > 16TB since the linux kernel ext4 docs at: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt in section > 2.1 > it states: * ability to use filesystems > 16TB (e2fsprogs support not > available yet). so can I use it or not?? if there are no tools to handle > this size then I cannot trust it. I would not go over 16TB (actually, I should say that I have not gone over it, and I have several LARGE RAID boxes). The tools aren't there, or don't work usefully (days to check a filesystem isn't "useful"). > > I want to create a storage with more then 16TB based on GlusterFS since > it allows me to use 2-3 rings FS which will allow me to put the storage > in a form of: > 1 client -> HA NFS servers -> GlusterFS cluster. We tried out glusterfs a couple years ago, but I gather, from my manage and the user who tried it, that there were some issues. I have no idea how one would fsck a glusterfs. *shrug* Why not stay under 16TB, and just mount the filesystems where you want? Were you looking at someone creating a single file larger than that? mark mark