On 2014-05-28, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > We're looking at getting an HBR (that's a technical term, honkin' big > RAID). What I'm considering is, rather than chopping it up into 14TB or > 16TB filesystems, of using xfs for really big filesystems. The question > that's come up is: what's the state of xfs on CentOS6? I've seen a number > of older threads seeing problems with it - has that mostly been resolved? I have some largish (>20TB) xfs filesystems on CentOS 6, and things seem fine. The one issue I had, quite a while ago (and maybe even in CentOS 5?), was with growing the fs, but I grew one on CentOS 6 recently with no problems. > How does it work if we have some *huge* files, and lots and lots of > smaller files? Define "huge". It seems fine for our use with multi-dozen-GB files (possibly getting to >100GB files) and many small files, but our load is generally not that heavy. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us