Re: 40TB File System Recommendations

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 07:18:23PM -0400, John Jasen wrote:
> On 04/12/2011 11:30 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On 4/12/2011 9:36 AM, John Jasen wrote:
> >>
> >> <snipped: two recommendations for XFS>
> >>
> >> I would chime in with a dis-commendation for XFS. At my previous
> >> employer, two cases involving XFS resulted in irrecoverable data
> >> corruption. These were on RAID systems running from 4 to 20 TB.
> > 
> > Was this on a 32 or 64 bit system?
> > 
> 
> Yes. IE: both.
> 

XFS is known to be broken on 32bit Linux..

XFS was originally developed on 64bit IRIX (iirc),
so it also "requires" 64bit Linux.

32bit Linux has too small stack for XFS.
Redhat only supports XFS on x86_64 RHEL.

-- Pasi

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