Les Mikesell wrote: > carlopmart wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Recently I have installed a centOS 5.4 server to use as a home NAS server. >> I need >> to use large files (8GB minimum) inside of it to serve via iSCSI services. >> Which >> filesystem do you recommends me to reach maximum performance: xfs, ext3, >> ext4, gfs2 >> ....?? > > None of them should have a problem with large files and any differences > in the filesystem metadata handling will be covered up by the underlying > disk access speed of a large amount of data per file. The bigger > differences are in how fast they can create or delete large numbers of > files. >
Thanks Les. then if I would to use sparse files to create these large files, which can be the best form: dd of qcow2 format for example?? -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos