Ben Nickell wrote: > I am creating a new filesystem for backuppc that will be about 3.4 Tb. > It consistes of 6 750gb SATA drives in RAID 5 on 3ware raid controller > also using LVM. (though not to span arrays, just for flexibility) > I strongly recommend you don't use RAID5. The read and write performance is nowhere near as good as RAID10 and that is what BackupPC's bottleneck is. > Does anyone have any filesystem tuning ideas or options they used to > create their filesystem that you think work well, particularly for large > filesystems? If so, please share the mkfs command line you used to > create your filesystem. > I use xfs on all my installations and feel that's the best mix of performance and reliability. I use the standard mkfs.xfs but I've read having the journal on a separate disk makes an enourmous write speed difference.
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