[Chester LUG] Filesystems

[Stuart Burns]

To be honest we use ext3 on some quite large systems. It seems to work
fine, just remember to set cluster size to quite larege ie 1Mb because
if you run multi TB and have small cluster size you run the danger of
running out of inodes and it isn't pretty. Also larger cluster sizes
favour virtual images as they are just large continuos files.

Other than that i would say zfs but as u say it has issues. I hear
reiser fs is muderous ;)

On 2/16/09, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for that - good to hear someone else has just stuck with ext3!  I'll
> take a look at XFS.
>
> ZFS is excellent, I use it on some boxes and it really offers some nice
> functionality (I might give a little demo of it in our first tech meet).
> There is a project that allows you to use ZFS with FUSE, but it's not that
> speedy from what I've read because it has to run in userspace (due to
> license issues).  If I'm feeling brave I might give it a go and see what I
> get from it.
>
> Les
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Dan <biglynchy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've always used ext3 and had no problems with it but not out of any
>> great knowledge, more to do with laziness, it's usually the default. I'm
>> no expert on filesystems at all but people are always telling me I
>> should be using xfs instead of ext3. I know a few people who even set it
>> up on their desktops, I believe you need a separate /boot partition
>> formatted as ext3 to get it working right and your main data partitions
>> are then xfs. I have no idea what the real advantage of it is though
>> sorry, not sure if I'm just adding to the confusion there :D Might be
>> worth reading up on it though. Real storage geeks always rave about zfs
>> from Solaris but I'm not sure if you can use it with Linux yet. It'll
>> get ported at some point I'm sure.
>>
>> Good luck with the new system :)
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 11:57 +0000, Les Pritchard wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > It's been a while since I've read up on the particulars on the many
>> > filesystems out there.  So I was wondering if anyone can anyone
>> > recommend the best filesystem for running 1TB and above filesystems?
>> > It's on an Ubuntu server and the disk(s) will be primarily for
>> > fileserving and VM hosting (so will most probably be large files).
>> > Have you had experiences good or bad with particular filesystems?
>> >
>> > Les
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Chester mailing list
>> > Chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/chester
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Chester mailing list
>> Chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/chester
>>
>

-- 
Sent from my mobile device