Hmm... depends on how much I/O you're seeing. Idling, I really wouldn't expect to see /too/ much. Is it possible the raid is doing something? I'd probably try to look into where it's coming from exactly. I wouldn't say excessive IO is normal on XFS though. -Andrew On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:04 PM, B-o-B De Mars <mr.chew.baka at gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/17/2013 8:46 PM, Andrew Dahl wrote:: >> >> I do XFS development for work, so my bias says XFS :-) >> >> >> It's actually going to be the default filesystem on RHEL7 and has >> comparable performance to ext3/4 (except it scales) >> >> But yeah, ZFS wouldn't be a bad choice. > > > I took your advice, and used XFS on a 18TB filesystem (hardware raid 10) > that I plan on using for backup storage. I've been busy as of late at work > so I haven't put this box into production yet. > > I have noticed that there seems to be an awful lot of disk activity while > the box just sits there idling. Is this normal for XFS? > > The box is Centos 6.4 minimal install. > > Just curious if this is normal before I go poking around looking for > answers. > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list