[OpenAFS] Which file system is the best for AFS data partitions?

2007-07-13 Thread Frank Burkhardt
Hi, On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:46:29PM -0400, Steven Jenkins wrote: * What is the underlying filesystem? what features do you have enabled? ( e.g., the output of dumpe2fs -h or equivalent on your system) Ok ... I replaced my beloved XFS by reiserfs (3), created a volume containing 19

Re: [OpenAFS] Which file system is the best for AFS data partitions?

2007-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll take the chance to ask everyone about their filesystem preferences for (namei-) AFS data partitions. I'm especially interested in things like I used XYfs but moved to YZfs because of XX. Please write about non-linux servers filesystem

Re: [OpenAFS] Which file system is the best for AFS data partitions?

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Banz
On Jul 13, 2007, at 16:58, Russ Allbery wrote: Frank Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll take the chance to ask everyone about their filesystem preferences for (namei-) AFS data partitions. I'm especially interested in things like I used XYfs but moved to YZfs because of XX. Please

Re: [OpenAFS] Which file system is the best for AFS data partitions?

2007-07-13 Thread Stephen Joyce
Frank, I use ext3 with noatime for vice partitions and try to limit servers to less than 2 TB per server for servers housing research data and .5 TB per server for servers housing home volumes. This has worked well so far. Outside AFS, I use xfs for filesystems over 2 TB, but as I said, I