Actually I tested my RAID card with 2x6, 3x4 and 1x12 configurations, the 1x12 was the fastest one (of course this is not an SCSI RAID card).
Regarding ext3, it's a journaling file system with not support at all for B(*/+)trees indexes and metadata storage. It's based on ext2 and it's a good way to add _journaling_ to an existing system, but not giving any more extra features. I checked several sources and XFS seems to be the best contestant. http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/212/ http://linuxgazette.com/issue55/florido.html http://www.linux-france.org/article/sys/ext3fs/Benchmarks/ http://aurora.zemris.fer.hr/filesystems/ http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=642 Thanks for the input. Omar -----Original Message----- From: Yura Pismerov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 6:34 PM To: Bradley W. Langhorst Cc: Donal Byrne; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [Samba] Filesystem for Samba server I said ext3 because it is part of any kernel source code (hence no patches needed when you upgrade). Though you will need patches for ACL and extended attributes support. Also I think it is still fastest on majority benchmark tests. ReiserFS that is part of 2.4.x kernels can compete too. XFS, last time I checked it was noticeable slow on writings. Things might change since then though. When I worked with SGI Irix I loved XFS. IMHO it is one of the best journalling filesystems. AFAIK it was invented and written from scratch in SGI. I hope the Linux port will be soon as good as its original. And yes, LVM is way to go. If you plan to grow your filesystem eventually it will be a matter of adding hardrives, creating a volume and adding it to a group. Then you can use standard utilities (depending on FS you choose) to grow the partition. "Bradley W. Langhorst" wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 06:53, Donal Byrne wrote: > > Thanks Yura, bust any reason why ext3 would be better? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Yura Pismerov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 08 October 2002 22:53 > > To: Donal Byrne > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: Re: [Samba] Filesystem for Samba server > > > > > > > > ext3 is probably the best choice. > > > > > > Donal Byrne wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry if this is a stupid question (bit of a newbie). I'm building a > > Samba > > > > fileserver on a box with a hardware raid array of about 65GB which I'm > > > > hoping to share out to the local LAN . I was wondering if the filesystem > > > > used (ext2,ext3, reiserfs etc) on the partition where the Samba shares > > > > will reside makes much of a difference? I'd obviously like to use a > > > > journalling filesystem but can't seem to find any info to guide my > > choice. > I think you should use XFS - > > 1) it is well supported by sgi > 2) it is mature > 3) it is fast > 4) it is in use on such large filesystems already > 5) acls are native > > I saw somewhere in this thread that someone was considering a 12 disk > raid 5. I'd suggest splitting this into a couple of raid5s and use LVM > if you need the space to be contiguous. I've found that performance is > optimal with about 5 disks > > brad > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
