XFS is optimized for sequential access performance. It's work with small files (especially MANY small files) is dismall.
I suggest piloting JFS. M Gil Freund wrote: >On 4/28/05, Tzahi Fadida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>It is my understanding that XFS mechanism do a lot of caching to memory >>to achieve good performance. This is a consideration between stability >>in the case of catastrophy to performance. >> >> > >2 x PSU, 2 x UPS and a generator should take care of power issues. > >How about day to day stability in high I/O? I had bad experience with >ext3 on mail stores (small files) and virtual tapes (large files) even >without crashes. > > > >>Regards, >> tzahi. >> >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Freund >>>Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:56 PM >>>To: IGLU Mailing list >>>Subject: VMware GSX host file systems >>> >>> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I am planning on deploying VMware GSX on a Debian system. >>>While I am happy with ReiserFS for most FS needs, I am >>>wondering if it would make sense to user XFS or JFS for the >>>VM image partition, as it seems both perform better with large files. >>> >>>On a side note, can anyone share information on performance >>>of the ESX product vs. the GSX product on Linux? Aside from >>>memory over-committing, most ESX functions (such as vMotion) >>>are not relevant to me. >>> >>>Thanks >>> >>>Gil >>> >>>====================== >>>To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run >>>the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >=============================================================== >To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command >echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
