[Gluster-users] Best practices?

[Joe Landman]

On 01/24/2012 01:18 PM, John Mark Walker wrote:
>
>
> ----- 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.

There is this brand spanking new btrfsck !  Though there are the 
occasional "OMG IT ATE MY FILE SYSTEM" posts to the list, which ... 
while helpful to the devs, won't inspire confidence yet ...

... but it will get there.

>
> -JM


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