10TB filesystem possible on Red Hat 4 EL System?

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 18:23 -0700, Sam Flory wrote:
>   CentOS 5 x86_64 will make things a whole lot easier.  You can then
> either install the xfs module, or the kernel with the xfsprogs rpm from
> the Centos extras tree.  Why Red Hat has made all their customers suffer
> I'm really not sure.

I would guess that Red Hat do not have the developers/time to support
XFS so if there is something wrong with it (or its utilities) they would
be unwilling to rearchitect parts of it for you because it is outside
your support contract. I know for a fact that Red Hat directly employ
ext3 developers like Stephen Tweedie though. This is nothing but
speculation on my part though (I don't even have a partition bigger than
1TB at the moment) - your best bet is to ask Red Hat for an answer
directly.

(I've heard it rumoured that there are very new options uninit_groups
and lazy_bg for mke2fs that can speed up e2fsck and filesystem creation
on large volumes. I guess Google might turn something up)

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