> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Haney > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:45 PM > To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases' > Subject: file system performance > > The perpetual question: which linux filesystem is preferred on large > (>2TB) arrays? I'm thinking of just general all around > performance as this fs is only going to store data. > Mark, I have not seen it matter much, some of the odd filesystems handle lots of small files better, but all typically stream large amounts of data at about the same speed. ext3 is in general the best tested because of how many people use it. If you use something like ext3 you will want to investiage the -N/i options on mkfs as you will want to reduce the inodes down to a more manageable number to speed up the fsck time when one is required. On a filesystem that will only have really large files use "-N 65536", that will typically reduce the number to the fewest allowed (quite a bit more than 65536), and decrease the fsck time by many many times. Roger
