I would expect that most file systems can saturate the disk bandwidth for the large sequential reads that hadoop does.
We use ext3 with good results. On 4/1/08 8:08 AM, "Colin Freas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the performance of Hadoop impacted by the underlying file system on the > nodes at all? > > All my nodes are ext3. I'm wondering if using XFS, Reiser, or ZFS might > improve performance. > > Does anyone have any offhand knowledge about this? > > -Colin
