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

[jh]

Ron Guerin wrote:
> 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 
> 
> No love here for JFS?
> 
> Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison Fri 21 Apr 2006
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388
> 
I'm totally open to using JFS. Can't RTFA, tho, can't get to the site. I 
assume that someone found that JFS was best for a similar situation to mine?

jh