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Linux file system for a big file server

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Mar 15, 202614008 views
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I would like to know, from more experienced people, what would be the best choice of file system to use for a file server having more than 20TB of hard disks. Personally I always used EXT3 (back in the days) and EXT4 (since available) [and once ReiserFS 3 though it caused many data corruption] on m…

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You should give a try to XFS, fit well in your requirements : XFS is a 64-bit file system. It supports a maximum file system size of 8 exbibytes minus one byte, though this is subject to block limits imposed by the host operating system. On 32-bit L…

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