[Gluster-users] Best practices?

John Mark Walker johnmark at redhat.com
Tue Jan 24 18:18:21 UTC 2012



----- Original Message -----
> Aside from this, carving a storage system into 16TB chunks is a
> terrible
> thing to do to a large file system capable unit.  ext4 (if you follow
> the previous link) still really doesn't do 16TB+ stably.  Things
> break.
>   It will eventually get there, but its not there now.  xfs has been
> doing large file systems for more than a decade.
> 

Well said. And someday, btrfs will be a worthy option as well.

-JM




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