On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 at 5:23pm, Jeff Gray wrote > I am curious as to which filesystem you are using on that server. I've asked > questions on other > mailing lists before regarding journaling filesystems but it's always > interesting to see how people > are using them in real-life scenarios. Currently I'm trying to choose > between Reiser and XFS. It very much depends on your workload and typical file size. I use XFS on my big 3ware based servers (2 2TB servers, and 1 1TB), and generally am *very* pleased with it. It's very popular on the linux-ide-arrays list as well. XFS usually is very fast. Where it falls down (at least, I think it's the culprit) is when you have *lots* of very small files. One directory on one of my servers is ~450 GB big and has ~3.4M files in ~29K subdirectories (avg file size 140Kb). Operations on that directory are noticeably slow. For that sort of workload, I'd think Reiser would be better. And lots of folks just stick with ext3. The best answer, of course, is to test with something that as closely as possible resembles your expected workload. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
