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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Nutch-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-developers
