Oren Held wrote:
Hi,
As far as I understand, ext3 on RHEL5 should support a single filesystem of
8TB or 16TB.. (http://www.centos.org/product.html)
Still, I wonder if it's smart to create a 6TB ext3 file system.
In theory, filesystem size won't affect stability or performance (except for
fsck speed I guess).
But in practice? Anybody got experience with it?
I like ext3 for its stability, nativity and popularity; do you think that I
should still use something else for such huge disks?
We have at least one client which makes use of ext3 for similarly sized
file systems with mostly random access fil eaccess for very critical
information. From what I can judge it works quite well.
You will have to provide more details to get more specific advice
though. Specifically, what Hetz and other have asked is very very
relevant indeed: how do you plan to use this file system: lots of small
file, couple of big files? How does the typical work load looks like?
random access? streaming? Mostly read, mostly write? etc.
Gilad
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