Alson van der Meulen wrote: >On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:49:45AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: >> I am a newbie ftp-administrator trying to build a new ftp-server for >> our university. >> >> Setup: >> >> Compaq Proliant 3700 >> Redhat 7.1 (currently with 2.4.9 kernel) >> Three other machines each with 4x40g IDE hard disks. They are Enbd >> servers with the Compaq as client. The Compaq as ftp-server then use >> the nbd-devices as storage giving us just less than 480G of space. >> >> While testing the software and hardware we had the following problems >> so far: >> >> Kernel unstability with 2.4.9-ac3, ac16 and ac18 and some of >> unstability using reiserfs on the nbd-devices. We did not determine >> whether the problem was on the kernel's side or from reiserfs in >> combination with nbd. >> >> Now I want to try ext3 on the nbd-devices. The reason is that >> fsck'ing the 12 nbd-devices takes a lot of time. A journalling file >> system can help. I have 6 unofficial woody CD's and I see that >> ext3-utilities are part of woody (which is not the case with Redhat >> 7.1 which most of the machines here use). >> >> What are the experiences in this group with woody and ext3? Would you >> recommend it for a setup like ours? >I use it at home, works fine. Didn't stress test it though. I guess it's >quite stable since it's mainly based on ext2, which is around for quite >some time. > >Have you considdered XFS yet? It's comparable with reiserfs regarding >speed (and like reiserfs faster than ext[23] for some operations). IIRC >XFS' main purpose was for file servers. I don't know how stable XFS is >though. >more info: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ > >A file system benchmark with XFS, Reiserfs and ext2 (performance nearly >same as ext3): http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=642
Yes, go for XFS if you want a filesystem that handles big files satisfactorily (beats reiserfs when used with very big database files, as reiserfs goes best with _many_ small files as opposed to a few _very big_ files). I use reiserfs just for my /home partition, while the others are in XFS (so I can easily delete unwanted users, since reiserfs deletes very fast). Paolo Alexis Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com