file system choice pitfalls on 100TB volume
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I have an 84 disk *powervault* storage array, I have configured as a virtual (as opposed to linear) array, with the RAID method as *ADAPT* (versus linear array of raid-5 or raid-10. One volume spans the entire array, and I have it showing up as
/dev/mpatha
. The storage array is connected via scsi cable to host server running rhel-7.9.
Using the gnome disks
gui I format that device using the **XFS** file system, and end up with 115TB of usable space, that I mount as /data
to the powervault host server and then NFS expored and samba shared out, over 1gbps copper and 100gbps infiniband.
Realizing this sounds similar to a *what file system should I choose* question, given the above details is there a better file system choice over XFS out of what's available in RHEL 7.9 to choose from? More importantly, in the future as this thing gets 50% full (50TB !) are there any foreseeable problems... what should I watch out for or specifically not do? I do have a second identical powervault configured that will contain a backup copy of data on the first powervault.
Asked by ron
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Aug 3, 2022, 04:16 PM