I would say the same. I don't think anyone can predict wat will happen, so I suggest someone does some tests with different filesystems AND different block sizes etc. Results will probably even differ on different hardware as well.
Regards, Leen Toelen On 12/13/05, Andrzej Bialecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Groschupf wrote: > > > Hi geeks, > > > > I have not that much much deep knowledge about the unix file systems, > > so my questions what would be the best file system for nutch > > distributed file systems data nodes? > > Does it make any different using the one or the other file system? > > Would reiserFS a good choice? > > > Most of the time we deal with very large files, with sequential access. > Only in few places we deal with a lot of small files (e.g. indexing). > So, I think the best would be an FS optimized for efficient sequential > write/read of large files. > > Is reiserfs such an FS? I'm not sure, I think these requirements point > rather to a fairly primitive FS (not FAT - a real FS ;-) ), perhaps > reiserfs is too complex. > > When in doubt, test. > > -- > Best regards, > Andrzej Bialecki <>< > ___. ___ ___ ___ _ _ __________________________________ > [__ || __|__/|__||\/| Information Retrieval, Semantic Web > ___|||__|| \| || | Embedded Unix, System Integration > http://www.sigram.com Contact: info at sigram dot com > > >
