> For the first time I will be using a 1-2 Terrabyte hard drive on any SL
> release, in particular, on an older SL5.0 (boron) OS.
>
> There's plenty on the web about pros and cons for larger file systems
> (resier, xfs, ext3, ext4, ...). I've usually stayed with ext3 (200-500
> Gb HD that are NFS mounted to linux or windows using MS windows for unix).
> So, vanilla; not too splashy a set up. No clusters. I've not used LVM.
>
> I think my question is which of these choices is as well developed,
> mature, and easy to use as ext3 for the SL5.0 boron version of SL? I'm
> most familiar with ext3 and do these stray IT tasks as needed, so I've not
> kept up on the latest and greatest.
>
> Thanks for any comments,
> Bill Lutter
>
Hi Bill - I'm running a data server with SL5.2. I have several 2-6TB
filesystems and one ~21TB filesystem, all hanging off a few 3ware cards.
The system has grown a bit piecemeal as our needs expanded, so there's no
grand design here - basically what I could get to work. The 2-6TB
filesystems are ext3. The 21TB filesystem is xfs (to echo a previous
comment, make sure you use parted or similar rather than fdisk when
creating a large filesystem and make a gpt label). BTW, the system is of
course 64bit if that has an impact on xfs filesystems.
I can say that I've been running like this for about 2-3 years with not
a single issue. Granted, the server is not under a huge load, basically
archive data, retrieve/access on a daily sort of timescale - ie. people
grabbing a few tens of ~100MB files on a daily basis. YMMV, but that's
a data point for you!
-Karl
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