On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 16:53 -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Steve wrote: > > So I'm wondering if anyone has a suggestion for a good file system > > that can cope with my sporadic but huge amounts of access (sometimes > > 25% of the total space of the drive may be written to, read from and > > deleted in a 24 hour period.) > > XFS is good for this. Where I work, we stream up to 100 MB/s to and > from disk. This was difficult even with 4 disks in a RAID 0 > configuration until we started trying different filesystems. Compared > with ext3 and reiserfs, XFS turned out to be a real winner for > multi-gigabyte files.
The real answer is to test them out. When I was building out a new mail server last year I tested out all of the available file systems and ReiserFS came out on top, due to the fact that mail involves a lot of little files with a high turnover. I've never tried it in this situation, although hopefully I'll have a chance soon since I've got my MythTV box half-built. When I get to that point, I'll try to post my results. Speaking of MythTV, if you don't mind my switching topics a bit, does anyone have any good recommendations for a remote control and/or wireless keyboard and mouse? Something that doesn't interfere with wifi and works from a reasonable distance (10 feet) would be key. Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
