On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 at 8:52pm, Eugen Leitl wrote
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.
Erm, I never mentioned the type of drives or setup. I've got one with 24
500GB SATA drives and another with 16 1TB SAS drives. And, yes, both use
RAID6. Short of a 3ware firmware issue on the first system (leading to
crashes, subsequent fscks, but no lost data and which is now fixed), both
are running smoothly.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF
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