On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Michael Marti
On Nov 19, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Michael Marti wrote:
This post http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=113090817418144&w=4 describes that a similar problem with nfs actually turned out to be due a size limit of the filesystem and not related to nfs at all. Reading this I went ahead and checked the block size of my ext3 partition: 4K. In fact the maximum ext3 filesystem size with 4K blocks is 8TB, while I am running it at 15TB. Pretty scary, considering that we don't want to loose the data we already have there.
Since ext3 does not support >8TB volumes I need to migrate to a different fs.
Can anyone make a recommendation as to what fs I should select on a SuSE 10.1 box with lvm?
I am considering : - reiserfs - jfs - xfs
Any experience as to what works (stable) and what doesn't?
How about zfs on SuSE 10.1?
Thank you for your help!
Michael Marti
For such a huge filesystem, I would use XFS. It was designed for very large scale systems. In particular if the files are large. (ie. Like a media server, etc.) ReiserFS may also be a good choice and it is tweaked for lots of small files. (Think of a email spool directory with millions of emails in transit.) JFS: I know next to nothing about it, but the wikipedia entry looks promising: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFS_file_system Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org