We used to, now it's all giant ZFS pools (ZFS on Linux, on 100% NVMe, 8Tb drives x 24 per unit as two RAIDz2 sets).
We chose that size for fsck times and resync times between machines. It was something we could recover in a day.
Bron.
On Sun, Dec 25, 2022, at 09:50, lolcatz21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I understand fastmail uses 1 or 2 terabyte partitions, but im curious as to why they chose this number?fsck check times?filesystem performance degradation?inode limitations?fragmentation?failure isolation?Also, is LVM recommended or frowned upon?
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Bron Gondwana, CEO, Fastmail Pty Ltd
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