XFS

[Gary Wilson]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> P.S. But before I'd put 18TB on ext3, I'd figure out a way to bear the 
> periodic downtime for preventative fscks.
>
> P.P.S. Why does the choice always seem to come down to a contest 
> between ext3 and xfs? Aren't there others worth considering that 
> perhaps represent some middleground?

Ext3 is not an option, even though I too have found it to be 
indestructable and throughly reliable for many many years. Fsck is the 
killer.

I'm also considering JFS, which like XFS, doesn't need the periodic 
fscks. I hadn't considered it until I noticed the Backblaze 
(www.backblaze.com), a Debian-based online backup is using JFS. They got 
my attention with their "Petabytes on a buget" blog posting on how to 
put together a 67 TB pod for under $8K. 
<http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/>

Gary