[Cialug] Xfs for centos

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
>
>  > 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.
>
>  Thanks Jeff.  With ext3 do I have to worry about allocating extra inodes for a really big fs or is the amount allocated by mkfs going to be enough?  I only ask because somebody mentioned indodes to me.

Only if you're going to have an unusually large number of small files,
or a few very large files.  mkfs.ext3 should create 1 inode per 4K of
disk space, so the number of inodes will vary depending on the size of
the filesystem.

Jeff