OT: fs choice for large system

[Jamie Bohr]

Found em, xfsprogs.  For some reason I thought this was part of X Font
Server.

Thanks,

On 6/9/06, Jay Cliburn <jacliburn at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 21:43 -0600, Jamie Bohr wrote:
> > What is better JFS or XFS?
> >
> > I am evaluating what file system to use on a 3.5 tera byte server I am
> > getting ready to deploy.  I was looking at JFS but it does not seem to
> > be extendable, please correct me if I am wrong.  Then I was going to
> > try XFS but I don't see any install packages for it.  I don't want to
> > reinstall the OS when I have a nice working FC5 install.  Does someone
> > know the package name for XFS so I can yum install it?
> >
> > What would you recommend?  I've heard a lot about XFS so I would like
> > to play with it.  Is it extendable?
>
> XFS came from SGI.  We use the cluster version, called CXFS, to provide
> a 20 TB workspace for a pair of 512-processor Origin 3900 systems
> (running IRIX, not Linux) doing scientific computing.  Our sister site
> in Ohio uses it on an Altix 3700 BX2 (Itanium) cluster (4 nodes of 512
> processors each) to provide a 100 TB workspace.  XFS should work fine
> for your 3.5 TB server.
>
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