On Thu September 22 2005 07:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 > combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things.
I don't have any experience with RAID10, but I've read good things about it. > Filesystem of choice is XFS but what did you find? In my primitive tests, XFS showed good performance for really large files -- like raw video files in the gigabytes (as it was designed to do), but small and "normal" file size performance is what I needed more and it wasn't ideal. Earlier this year, I used XFS for several months on two servers and I liked it. However, through a bizarre series of power problems, I found parts of files wiped out with filler characters. That made me really nervous so I dropped it. I've had good stability with EXT3 in the past, but its performance wasn't something to cheer about. Despite the problems I had with Red Hat Linux support for ReiserFS a few years ago, I use it in most cases now. It has been stable for a while and does a great job for what I need; and of course I'm not using a Red Hat OS anymore. If you're happy with the performance, there's no need to change, but it wouldn't hurt to try some tests of your own while you're building a new server. -- Ron -- [email protected] mailing list
