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The last time I had to participate in a RHEL install, the installer would do ext4 if <16TB, xfs if >16TB. I find this size unusually arbitrary, but I suspect R
by DiabloD3 3y ago
The last time I had to participate in a RHEL install, the installer would do ext4 if <16TB, xfs if >16TB.
I find this size unusually arbitrary, but I suspect Red Hat found unwanted behavior in some ext related code. This was after the known issue in e2fsprogs that was fixed around a decade ago preventing fscking of >16TB; RHEL of a decade ago was either "xfs by default" or "xfs if >2TB" or similar, and the installer clearly changed since then.
Casual Googling also says my experience with "RHEL says XFS > 16TB" is out of date, and its now "XFS > 100TB". And like, look, if you're doing 100TB, use ZFS, stop fucking around and do it right.
- 5e92cb50239222b 3y agoXFS has been the default for everything since RHEL7 IIRC (the smallest disk I tried was something like 5 GBs).