Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:27:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:27:03 -0500 Received: from pipt.oz.cc.utah.edu ([155.99.2.7]:64665 "EHLO pipt.oz.cc.utah.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:26:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 00:22:37 -0700 (MST) From: james rich To: Tom Sightler cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Questions about Enterprise Storage with Linux In-Reply-To: <006301c0a765$3ca118e0$1601a8c0@zeusinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Tom Sightler wrote: > 2. Does linux have any problems with large (500GB+) NFS exports, how about > large files over NFS? > > 3. What filesystem would be best for such large volumes? We currently use > reirserfs on our internal system, but they generally have filesystems in the > 18-30GB ranges and we're talking about potentially 10-20x that. Should we > look at JFS/XFS or others? I think that for filesystems this size you definately want to look at XFS of JFS. Maybe you will decide not to use them - but you should test them. I am currently using XFS and it really works. It currently has some issues when used with raid 1, but it is probably the most suited for what you want. Exporting an XFS volume over NFS is no problem. You can also use xfs_growfs to change the size of your XFS partition. I haven't had any instability during all the time I've used XFS. James Rich james.rich@m.cc.utah.edu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/