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.