Keith Keller wrote: > 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. At the moment, files that are tens of gigs, but I would not be at *all* surprised to see another decimal point there in the next year or two. HBR - a Jetstor 742 with 42 4TB drives.... I'm assuming they'll want me to do RAID 6 for this, as we've been doing on other RAIDs. mark