[ale] Ale subscribers

[Jeremy.Bouse at UnderGrid.net (Jeremy T. Bouse)]

On 10/12/2013 12:15 AM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> Sorry for the weird quoting, my phone is in need of a reboot apparently. Anyway, it sounds like a job for XFS to me.
> Allen B.
    Had the call been up to me, yes I would have gone with XFS however
the group that was using this server didn't want XFS as the filesystem
in use. So we had to split the array into small enough sizes that could
be formatted successfully.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeremy T. Bouse [mailto:jeremy.bouse at UnderGrid.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 10:10 PM Central Standard Time
> To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Ale subscribers
>
> On 11.10.2013 17:13, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Its happened before. Itll happen again. But next round I hand off to
>> someone else and walk away. Im a Linux nut not a babysitter.
>>
>> One thumb typing freezing my tail off standing in the downdraft of 
>> the
>> AC in the data center doing an install should say something about my
>> state of mind. Probably nothing nice, but at least "interesting".
>>
>> Centos 6.4 does not really like installs with 20 and 40 TB arrays.
> Depending on the filesystem utilized this can be a problem for most 
> every distro not just CentOS. There is an upperbound limit to 
> ext2/ext3/ext4 and I've ran into it setting up servers before.
>