On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:45:48 -0500
William Lutter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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

Well, ext3 will supposedly work with up to 16 TB in RHEL5, so SL should
have similar limits.
Most Linux filesystems don't have a 2 TB limit; the only FS I know of
that has a 2 TB limit is FAT32--which is extremely slow at large sizes.
Ext3 goes to 2 TB with 1kb blocks.
ReiserFS, JFS, & XFS ( which is supported by SL, but not TUV) are also
options.

So anything should work, but I can't tell what would be best.  Probably
any one of the alternatives would be faster than ext3.