On 23 okt 2013, at 12:59, David T-G wrote:
Hi again, all --
The last thing I need to figure out for my happy new system is what FS to use. I've been a big fan of Reiser for a long time (although I haven't kept up with any development news), but ext3 (as ext2 + journal) is a solid standard and drivers and utils are available under Windows (and in fact I have in the past put such things in a tiny DOS-fs slice at the back end of the disk) for "just in case". There are others (no, I'm not considering NTFS :-) out there, too, that I haven't even met. Now that I've met SuSE Studio, though, and shouldn't have to worry about booting from some random live ISO in the event of a system crash, maybe it's time to just pick the best FS for my needs.
This will be primarily a large-disk (~4T or, via striping, perhaps ~5T) data storage system for backups, media, and other fun stuff; I don't expect lots of dynamic activity as on a desktop or compiling system but instead figure I'll see large write batches (backups, copies, etcetc) and mostly sequential reads, but we'll have mostly small and medium files and probably not a lot of really big files. The disks themselves will hold content and be fairly static; my SuSE Studio boot image goes on a uSD card in a USB slot and that's where any /tmp or other work will be. I'll probably end up running a small web server as well as samba, but again that shouldn't affect the spinning bits.
Any thoughts, shy of religious warfare, on the best FS to use for a data and archive server? [I promise this is it for me for today ;-]
TIA again & HAND
:-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt
Hi David, I'm surprised no one mentioned ZFS yet... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS http://zfsonlinux.org/ and the very recently opened site: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page I has a lot of of XFS, Lustre, better RAID than RAID5/6/7, built in compression, iscsi, nfs, etc etc and it's extremely easy (almost boring) to administer. Runs on OSX, Linux, Illumnos/Solaris, FreeBSD... and it loves old disks ;) gr Arno-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org