poweredge/md1000/debian etch amd64 partition limitations

[Pietro Abate]

We have 3.7T on xfs. I've configured it to have an external log
partition, but apart from that I've use the defaults and I haven't had
any problems so far.

The fs at the moment is only half full... with thousend of small files
(5 - 50 Mb).

I've exactly the same hw as you and I'm also exporting the md1000 via
aoe as a poor-man SAN.

pp


On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:23:31AM -0400, Terry Gliedt wrote:
> admin at matphot.com wrote:
> > 
> > I may have partially answered the question myself - the limitation is  
> > in the ext3 file format, and maximum size depends directly on the size  
> > of the blocks I use. I am looking into a 'best' file system for debian  
> > etch amd64 at present.
> 
> We have been using xfs on large filesystems for several years now. I've 
> been really quite pleased with how it can be extended and can recover 
> when something dramatic happens. No complaints on speed, but when you're 
> dealing with thousands of xxGB files, nothing is extremely fast.
> 
> We have many file systems with > 2TB. Only problem has been a bug in 
> parted (Debian etch and earlier) which does not properly save the 
> partition information on large (>2TB? >4TB?) so when you reboot, your 
> file system is gone. Not to worry, parted can put it back and xfs can 
> recover. I was really worried the first time I lost a 10TB filesystem. :-)
> 
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