On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:27:56PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > 16TB ext3 support was included as a technology preview in RHEL5 and fully > supported in 5.1. I've got a couple of >8TB ext3 FSes. Why ext3? > Because nothing else is as well supported by the vendor on RHEL/CentOS. > For primary file servers, I don't want to muck about with add-on kernel > modules, "plus" kernels, or anything else of that sort. I want to run as > close to stock as possible. And on anything RHEL derived, that means > ext3.
Don't you get creeping data corruption on 10+ worth of TByte drives? And not even RAID6? I'd definitely get drives from different batches, or preage them randomly. I'm speccing such a box right now with a Supermicro 2U box, and I'm going either for FreeNAS 0.7 (bleeding edge) or OpenSolaris/NexentaStor, both with zfs. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
