Evans, Kevin R wrote:

200Gb is large?...we have a VSAM index file here that just points to
records within a VSAM ESDS...the index is over 500Gb <g>. The keys
themselves are from 10 to 30 bytes each (depending on the type).

K

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Hall, Ken (GTI)
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Subject: Re: What file system type to use for LVM ?

Mount options NOATIME and NODIRATIME

But I don't see those on the current Reiser doc pages.



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Phil Tully
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To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] What file system type to use for LVM ?


David Boyes wrote

In a earlier life I had implemented Reiserfs for a series
large (200Gb
) samba filesystems.  We experienced significant problems at the peak
access times (9am and 4pm)  after many months of hair pulling we found
the culprit.  The last referenced field was being updated and locked,
with the lock being held much longer than expected.

There is an option to turn off updating the last referenced
field but I
can't find my notes from 3 years ago..  When this was resolved we
acheived up to very reasonable response time with hundreds of
concurrent
users.

Now to find that setting....

Phil



Just trying to gauge which is the more popular filesystem


type to use




for




logical volumes,  reiserfs or ext3 and why.




Reiserfs is more popular, because it is the default in SuSE. We've
observed a fair number of cases where reiserfs fails at very high I/O
rates, so we tend to use ext3 in places where we know it's


going to get


beaten hard. reiserfs performs slightly better than ext3 on


filesystems


that will have a lot of small files (that's its design point


anyway) so


you may need to mix and match.





Seems like reiserfs will allow resizing through the YaST GUI, whilst




ext3




filesystems forces CLI interaction.




Install EVMS and use evmsn in place of the YaST storage gui. Then you
get a nice front end for both, and a whole lot more.



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Well to 200gb isn't small, and each samba server was managing multiple
200gb filesystems.  So we all define lg and sm differently.
Phil

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