[ale] Filesystem preferences

[Danny Cox]

Jonathan,

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 17:44, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> xfs is the only choice. It was designed for moving huge files around and
> it does so _very_ efficiently.  ext3 is a good, "best of all worlds"
> choice. It won't be too slow, or handle gigantic files super fast. 

	Seconded!

> Raid5, LVM and xfs are the standard parts for storing terrabyte files
> for movie productions and scientific data.

	Yep!

> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 10:40, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> > What filesystem do most of you prefer when dealing exclusively with large 
> > (>2GB) files? Based on everything I've seen and experienced, it's a two 
> > horse race between ext3 and xfs. Thoughts?

	Hmm.  I don't seem to be adding much, do I?  Wait - lemme look it
up....I'll be right back....

	<time passes>

	See http://fsbench.netnation.com/ for a filesystem shootout with lots
of numbers comparing most of the fss in Linux.

	HTH!

-- 
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medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny