On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 03:19:03PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
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> --On March 25, 2006 11:30:07 AM -0500 stan <stanb AT panix DOT com> wrote:
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> >On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 11:25:01AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> >>On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 at 10:37am, stan wrote
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> >>> Subject line pretty much says it all.
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> >>> What filesystem type should I use for a largish dumpdisk, oh and how
> >>> about for a vtape partiton too?
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> >>What OS/distro are you using on the server?
> >>
> >Sorry (hides face in shame). I'm using Ubuntu Breezy. I plan on building
> >my own 2.6.16 kerenel. So my choices are li,ited to what's avaialble
> >on Linux.
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> >I would think BTW, that if i had managed to get my hardware working
> >with Solaris 10 (which was my first plan), I'd have used zfs.
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> Solaris for x86 has always been short in the hardware department...In past
> days it was kinda sluggy too because it lacked hardware support for a
> number of things that were fast on SPARC due to hardware support in the
> processor. I think with 10 they finally became VERY serious about x86 and
> ESPECIALLY x86_64 performance too and it's improved, that said I haven't
> had any time to even test Sol 10. Soon...sometime...
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> I'd tend to recommend ReiserFS or XFS first (to me Reiser is better, XFS
> second...Reiser seems to handle corruption a little better, except in the
> case of tail corruption in which case you lose all the tails on the
> filesystem possibly), followed by ext3. Ext2 isn't an option because for
> 500+G you need journalling.
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> Reiser will take a while to mount such a large filesystem....As may XFS. I
> haven't treied anything that big recently with ext3 but you can try
> it...though I'm kind of interested now so I might see myself. My
> benchmarks would be out of whack with yours though because of CPU and
> storage backend differences. :)
I woulnd up using ReiserFS on the root, and one 250G partition that
I will use to store (via NFS) various large data files. I put XFS on
the (250G) dumpdisk, and the (1.2T) vtape lvm sections.
I've had great success with ReiserFS, for general purpose stuff, and
have used XFS for a couple of years for my (.5T) Myth data partition.
Yes, I heard, after I built this machine that the Myth community
recomends JFS, instead of XFS. Aparently it's faster at dleteing
large files, which Myth does quite a bit of.
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