[Gluster-users] Best practices?

[John Mark Walker]

----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 09:11:01AM -0600,
> Greg_Swift at aotx.uscourts.gov wrote:
> > We have to have large numbers of volumes (~200).  Quick run down to
> > give
> > context.
> > 
> > Our nodes would have around 128TB of local storage from several
> > 32TB raid
> > sets.  We started with ext4, so had a 16TB maximum.
> 
> Aside:
> http://blog.ronnyegner-consulting.de/2011/08/18/ext4-and-the-16-tb-limit-now-solved/
> 

True. Also, note that XFS is the recommended disk FS, although Ext3/4 are certainly still supported and will continue to be so.

-JM