[Cialug] Xfs for centos

[Nathan C. Smith]

> CentOS 5.1 should have everything you need to create ext3 filesystems
> in excess of 8TB (The Fedora Project has a 10TB filesystem for it's
> build farm, except they are on RHEL). AFAIK Centos5.2 doesn't exist
> yet. CentOS 4 is limited to 8TB ext3 filesystem IIRC.  I'd stick with
> ext3.
>
> If you do go with XFS be sure to install "xfsprogs" which contains the
> utilities for creating/repairing XFS filesystems.
>
> Jeff

Thanks Jeff.  With ext3 do I have to worry about allocating extra inodes for a really big fs or is the amount allocated by mkfs going to be enough?  I only ask because somebody mentioned indodes to me.

-Nate