[Cialug] Xfs for centos

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
>
>  Anybody using xfs (filesystem as opposed to x font server) on Centos?  (I think Centos 4.4 or 5.2 or somesuch).  How is the support?
>
>  There are several packages, how do I know which xfs support to use from yum search xfs?
>
>  kmod-xfs.i686
>  kmod-xfs-smp.i686
>  kmod-xfs-hugemem.i686
>  Etc.
>
>  "Yum install xfs" didn't do anything so I probably have to pick one.
>  The reason I was looking at XFS was for support on a really large filesystem.  Should I just stick with ext3 for safety's sake?

CentOS 5.1 should have everything you need to create ext3 filesystems
in excess of 8TB (The Fedora Project has a 10TB filesystem for it's
build farm, except they are on RHEL). AFAIK Centos5.2 doesn't exist
yet. CentOS 4 is limited to 8TB ext3 filesystem IIRC.  I'd stick with
ext3.

If you do go with XFS be sure to install "xfsprogs" which contains the
utilities for creating/repairing XFS filesystems.

Jeff