Large FOSS filesystems, was Re: [Beowulf] 512 nodes Myrinet cluster Challanges

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Thu May 4 10:25:29 PDT 2006


On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:57:13AM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:

> On a somewhat related note, are there any FOSS filesystems that can
> surpass 16 terabytes in a single filesystem - reliably?

http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php is reliable, but isn't a single
filesystem. Would zfs scale into that range? I think lustre definitely 
does.

Please summarize to the list, should you get off-list replies.
 
> Even something like a 64 bit linux system aggregating gnbd exports or
> similar with md or lvm and xfs or reiserfs (or whatever filesystem)
> would count, if it works reliably.

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