[ale] XFS the default in RHEL 7?

[Jim Kinney]

You get a 6TB fsck in only 3 days?!?!? "You lucky bastard! You lucky, lucky
bastard!" (With apologies to Monty Python)
On Jun 20, 2013 9:09 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

> As I said ext4 is supported fully as of RHEL5.4.
>
> It does have performance benefits over ext3.   Not the least of which is
> you don't have to wait 3 days for the full fsck to finish on your 6 TB
> filesystem.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Beddingfield, Allen
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:42 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] XFS the default in RHEL 7?
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> I've been using XFS for the better part of a decade...  especially after
> the ReiserFS (MurderFS?) implosion.  We are about 95% SUSE, with a few RHEL
> and CentOS servers around because of vendor requirements.  Ext3 has been
> showing its age for a long time, and I was hoping that ext4 would bring
> about something better, but not really.  The SUSE guys (not OpenSUSE) have
> been very opposed to ext4, to the point that you can't even create an ext4
> filesystem, and you have to load an extra package to enable read only
> support for it.
> I find it annoying that even after implementing support for XFS (although
> it is a paid add-on), you still can't make "/" XFS on RHEL.  I've been
> experimenting with BtrFS, but not on anything production.
> I still haven't found anything that has given better results than XFS for
> our use.
>
> Allen B.
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> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Jim Kinney [
> jim.kinney at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:34 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] XFS the default in RHEL 7?
>
> ext4 has some nasty bugs that block use of filesystems larger than
> 40-something TB. Ext4 SUPPORTS massively larger filesystems that 40TB but
> due to an implementation bug (that isn't getting fixed for some reason)
> it's stuck. I recently setup a 56TB drive array and XFS was perfectly
> happy. EXT4 just choked. Tested with a Fedora 18 and a rawhide just to see
> WTF and yep, even Debian has the issue.
>
> So XFS will handle exabytes. So will ext4 eventually.
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> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu<mailto:
> allen at ua.edu>> wrote:
> Interesting...
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> https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/xfs-the-file-system-of-choice/
> Allen B.
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> Allen Beddingfield
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> The University of Alabama
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