[Techtalk] filesystem options

Wim De Smet kromagg at gmail.com
Sat Jan 8 00:08:17 EST 2005


On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:31:53 -0500, Kristina Clair <kclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Does anyone have any strong opinions for pros and cons of various
> filesystems?  Particularly, for a hardware raid 5 1TB device which
> will be used over nfs by high-traffic webservers.
> 
> >From my reading so far, it seems like ReiserFS or XFS might give the
> best performance.  We have started out using XFS, but it is giving us
> a few problems, most critically with the quota system.
> 
> The machine is running Gentoo 3.3.4-r1, 2.6.9 kernel.

If you didn't already read it, I found this:
http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html

Was linked a long while ago on slashdot. I knew it had to be around
somewhere. :-)

greets,
Wim


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