XFS

[Jerry McBride]

On Friday 09 October 2009 16:02:43 Gary Wilson wrote:
> Michael Hipp wrote:
> > P.S. But before I'd put 18TB on ext3, I'd figure out a way to bear the
> > periodic downtime for preventative fscks.
> >
> > P.P.S. Why does the choice always seem to come down to a contest
> > between ext3 and xfs? Aren't there others worth considering that
> > perhaps represent some middleground?
> 
> Ext3 is not an option, even though I too have found it to be
> indestructable and throughly reliable for many many years. Fsck is the
> killer.
> 
> I'm also considering JFS, which like XFS, doesn't need the periodic
> fscks. I hadn't considered it until I noticed the Backblaze
> (www.backblaze.com), a Debian-based online backup is using JFS. They got
> my attention with their "Petabytes on a buget" blog posting on how to
> put together a 67 TB pod for under $8K.
> <http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-ch
> eap-cloud-storage/>
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
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It's been a while since I've looked at file systems in general.Is jfs on par 
with ext3 or ext4 performance wise? Hmmm.... 
Jerry


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