0n Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 07:47:04PM +0000, A Darren Dunham wrote: 

    >Does anyone have any experience with using other linux filesystems for
    >NBU catalog hosting?  I'm wondering if XFS would perform better over
    >time.  Or perhaps I could make some tuning decisions on ext3 for better
    >long-term resistance to fragmentation.

XFS's strength is I/O on _large_ files e.g. Video, Audio etc. SGI poured
millions of $ into XFS to handle massive datasets for mostly the video
and mininging worlds.

I'm not sure of the internals of the NB catalog to say XFS is a good solution.

 -aW

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