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

[Brandorr]

If you are willing to look at OpenSolaris, you can always use ZFS. ;)
Let me know if you want to test this out, or need more info. (ZFS also
supports native FS compression)..

-Brian
P.S. - I'm pretty sure that ZFS hands NT file perms out of the box.

On 8/20/07, jh <jhlists at hirschman.net> wrote:
> 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
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- Brian Gupta

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