[rhelv6-list] You suggestion for 'big' filesystem management Best Practice?
Masopust, Christian
christian.masopust at siemens.com
Fri Oct 28 16:30:03 UTC 2011
> Götz Reinicke wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we plan to set up a big file storage for media files like
> uncompressed
> > movies from student film projects, dvd images etc.
> >
> > It should be some sort of archive and will not bee accessed
> by more than
> > may be 5 people at the same time.
> >
> > The iSCSI RAID we have is about 26TB netto and I'm again
> faced with the
> > question: How many partitions, which filesystem, which
> mount options etc.
> >
> > For the User it would be the most simpel thing, to have one big
> > filesystem she/he could fill with all the data and dont has
> to search
> > e.g. on multiple volumes.
> >
> > On the other hand, if one big filesystem crashes or has do
> be checked it
> > will destroy a lot of data or the check will take hours ...
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions pro or cons are welcome! :-)
> >
> > My favourite for now is 3 to 4 filesystems with the default ext4
> > settings. (Redhat EL 5.7, may be soon 6.1)
> >
> > Thanks and best regards. Götz
>
> If you decide to go with RHEL6, xfs is a good bet for making one big
> filesystem. We have a setup similar to what you're
> describing and have
> had very solid stability and performance using xfs (default
> filesystem
> and mount settings.) As far as I can see (and knocking on
> wood), xfs is
> now a lot less flaky than it seemed to be in the past.
>
> -Peter
I can approve what Peter mentioned. I've been using xfs on my
CentOS 5 system with 2 16TB arrays (each holding one single filesystem)
for several years with absolutely no issues!
Christian
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