[nylug-talk] Big filesystem recommendation - which one?

[jh]

I'm getting ready to build a new fileserver. Hardware raid, about a 
dozen HDs, about 5TB of storage. NFS and Samba file serving duties.

My peculiar needs are that my work entails huge populations of 
tiny-to-small files - for example, 20 million TIFF images in a 
collection, each between 5 and 500k in size.

The last file server I built used XFS on a 1.5TB filesystem (this was a 
few years ago, when 1.5TB was still slightly impressive), and it worked 
pretty well - hell, it still works great. Deletions are a bit pokey with 
XFS it seems, but that's my only complaint.

What would you use today?

jh