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

[David Rosenstrauch]

jh 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

I've read that ReiserFS works well with large numbers of files.

HTH,

DR