[Gluster-users] Recommended filesystem for GlusterFS bricks.

[Ben Turner]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kurian Thayil" <kurian at gnuhack.com>
> To: "Bobby Jacob" <bobby.jacob at alshaya.com>
> Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 10:08:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Recommended filesystem for GlusterFS bricks.
> 
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 13:52:14 +0000
> Bobby Jacob <bobby.jacob at alshaya.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Which is the recommended filesystem to be used for the bricks in
> > glusterFS. ?? XFS/EXT3/EXT4 etc .????
> > 
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > 
> > Bobby Jacob
> > Senior Technical Systems Engineer | eGroup
> > P SAVE TREES. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need
> > to.
> > 
> 
> XFS is recommended for bricks.

Be sure to set the inode size to 512 to allow enough room for glusterfs's xattrs:

mkfs.xfs -i size=512 <my block device>

-b
 
> Regards,
> K.
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