----- Original Message ----- > Aside from this, carving a storage system into 16TB chunks is a > terrible > thing to do to a large file system capable unit. ext4 (if you follow > the previous link) still really doesn't do 16TB+ stably. Things > break. > It will eventually get there, but its not there now. xfs has been > doing large file systems for more than a decade. > Well said. And someday, btrfs will be a worthy option as well. -JM