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.

Regards,
Josh.

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