Re: You suggestion for 'big' filesystem management Best Practice?

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2011/10/28 Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> The iSCSI RAID we have is about 26TB netto and I'm again faced with the
> question: How many partitions, which filesystem, which mount options etc.
>

My vote goes to XFS, if only one server needs acces to the LUN's; and GPFS
(not GFS) if you need a cluster filesystem.

BR Bent (130 TB in one XFS installation, and 600 TB in one gpfs cluster)


> For the User it would be the most simpel thing, to have one big
> filesystem she/he could fill with all the data and dont has to search
> e.g. on multiple volumes.
>
> On the other hand, if one big filesystem crashes or has do be checked it
> will destroy a lot of data or the check will take hours ...
>
>
> Any suggestions pro or cons are welcome! :-)
>
> My favourite for now is 3 to 4 filesystems with the default ext4
> settings. (Redhat EL 5.7, may be soon 6.1)
>
> Thanks and best regards. Götz
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