Hi folks,
I'd like to ask a hardware question if that is okay as my IT department have
just asked me and I wonder if it might be of interest to others as well.
They have asked me if there is any official recommendation / documentation on
the allocation size to use when configuring an NTFS disk drive for us by a
GeoServer?
I'm not aware of an official recommendation myself. I'm told by my IT that our
default is 4kb but things like exchange servers may use 64kb and the right
choice may impact on performance depending on the application in question.
A similar question came up recently when we were looking at de-duplication
options for the drives as the raw data files which our GeoServer uses are also
used by our user network drive. We hoped that we might be able to de-duplicate
the two drives to save on space but the results were not worth further
investigation; it was suggested then that it might be to do with the small file
sizes of most files in a GeoServer data directory (certainly if looking at GWC
data).
I'm guessing this is all pretty specific to people deploying GeoServer in a
corporate environment though so I hope the question is not too niche to be of
interest.
Best Regards,
Paul Wittle
GIS Developer
Insight, Intelligence & Performance
Chief Executive's Department
County Hall
Dorchester
Dorset. DT1 1XJ
Tel: 01305 228473
E mail: p.wit...@dorsetcc.gov.uk<mailto:p.wit...@dorsetcc.gov.uk>
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