I'd highly recommend getting a NetApp storage device for something that big. It's more expensive up front, but the amount of heartache/time saved in the long run is WELL worth it. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator < goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de> wrote: > Hi, > > over time the requirements and possibilities regarding filesystems > changed for our users. > > currently I'm faced with the question: > > What might be a good way to provide one big filesystem for a few users > which could also be enlarged; backuping the data is not the question. > > Big in that context is up to couple of 100 TB may be. > > O.K. I could install one hardware raid with e.g. N big drives format > with xfs. And export one big share. Done. > > On the other hand, e.g. using 60 4 TB Disks in one storage would be a > lot of space, but a nightmare in rebuilding on a disk crash. > > Now if the share fills up, my users "complain", that they usually get a > new share (what is a new raidbox). > > From my POV I could e.g. use hardware raidboxes, and use LVM and > filesystem growth options to extend the final share, but what if one of > the boxes crash totally? The whole Filesystem would be gone. > > hm. > > So how do you handle big filesystems/storages/shares? > > Regards . Götz > > -- > Götz Reinicke > IT-Koordinator > > Tel. +49 7141 969 82 420 > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu