On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 04:59:55PM +0000, Alan Jones wrote: > This brought a question to my mind - does pvfs tend to use a lot of > small files (suggesting to go with reiser 3) or fairly large files on > average (xfs) ? I imagine the choice of file system could impact > performance.
The answer to that question depends on how PVFS is used. If you store large files on PVFS, PVFS will store slightly smaller large files on disk (the large file will be split up across the N PVFS servers). We've got a little more information here: http://pvfs.org/pvfs2-faq.html#sec:local_fs ==rob -- Rob Latham Mathematics and Computer Science Division A215 0178 EA2D B059 8CDF Argonne National Lab, IL USA B29D F333 664A 4280 315B _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
