On Thu 08 Oct 2015, Andreas Nitsche wrote: > > maybe you want to think about having more banks with smaller partitions > in case of a filesystem check or even a resize. I'm still using ext4 for > my backup filesystem because I didn't knew it better when I setup the > machine. I resized the partition from 4 to 6 TB for which I first need a > filesystem check which needs to have 4 GB additional RAM and it took
I generally use ext4, as it performs well and predictably. Do the resize online and you don't need to perform the fsck (don't ask me about the reasoning behind that, I have no idea). I have had the most terrible problems with XFS as a filesystem for dirvish, a lot of bugs were triggered (this was a couple of years ago). Btrfs with the default dirvish mode of operation (rm -r of old images) couldn't keep up, background garbage collection after a daily removal took more than 24 hours to clean up. Using snapshots would probably solve this, there are patches to dirvish floating around to do this. I have no experience with ZFS. I don't know whether it works as well on linux as on Solaris; my experience with XFS which also originated on another Unix shows that proven track record on another Unix doesn't automatically mean that it'll work just as well on linux. Paul _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
