XFS is a valid alternative to ZFS on Linux. If I remember correctly any operation that requires modifying a lot of xattr's can be slower than ext*, have you noticed anything like that? You might see slower rebalances or self healing? Craig Sent from a mobile device, please excuse my tpyos. On Sep 24, 2011, at 22:14, Liam Slusser <lslusser at gmail.com> wrote: > I have a very large, >500tb, Gluster cluster on Centos Linux but I use the XFS filesystem in a production role. Each xfs filesystem (brick) is around 32tb in size. No problems all runs very well. > > ls -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110924/f502d8c3/attachment.htm>