For large non-lustre filesystems of that size, we have been deploying XFS successfully for the last 3-4 years at least. We have a few deployments using centos plus to get it onto a redhat based system but generally have to chose Novell SLES to get a fully supported XFS solution.
Cheers, Michael Will On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:44:55PM -0500, Joe Landman wrote: > dan.kid...@quadrics.com wrote: >> And anyway - I thought the maximum size for ext3 was 8TB ? > > It is w/o the patches. With patches it can get to 16TB. I seem to > remember that the 16TB required an 8kB page size (e.g. Itanium2 kernel). > >> I know that there are patches to bring it up to 16TB, but does >> anybody trust these and use them for production systems? > > I am sure a few people are using this. We just don't advise/recommend > this file system at these sizes. > > Lustre uses a (significantly patched) ext3 right now to get beyond 8TB > per OSD. Since they appear to be migrating over to zfs, and their > patches aren't in the kernel yet (will go back and recheck), this is > still a problem. > > Since we have customers/users with 40+ TB on single boxen we don't > normally recommend file systems that run close to their limits in daily > usage scenarios. That and fsck ... well ... > > Joe > > -- > Joseph Landman, Ph.D > Founder and CEO > Scalable Informatics LLC, > email: land...@scalableinformatics.com > web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com > http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com > phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 > fax : +1 866 888 3112 > cell : +1 734 612 4615 > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
