[Cialug] Xfs for centos

[David Champion]

I'm sticking with reiserfs, because it's bad-ass now.

What's the status of ext4?

-dc

Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> 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
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