Jeffrey Borg was once rumoured to have said: > Hi everyone. > > Well I finally got 4 x 80gb hdd's to use with a 3ware 6400 controller > which I have had for months. Now I am going to have ~160gb in a system. > > Any idea's on partitioning schemes/filesystems. > > So far I am only speed testing it to try and find the right stripe size > for raid0+1. Raid 5 on the above card is far too slow. > > Btw the machine is used for > desktop - word processing / web browsing / email > server - email + proxy cache + web server + samba + ftp > development - whatever I want to do. > media - mp3, ogg etc... > > > Also the filesystem cons + pro's > ext3 - compatable with very robust ext2 tools because it is ext2 > ext3 - it's in the kernel source less patching! > > ext3 - long fsck time every x days or y mounts
ext3 is _SLOW_. Not to be used for cache nor mail servers. > xfs - don't know about tools for it Extensive tool suite - SGI provided all their standard tools which have been shipping on Irix systems for quite a while. You failed to mention reiser though: Reiser is nice and fast when you're reading, slow when you're writing, and fast to recover. Maximal space utilization through the intelligent use of btrees. Downside? Poor recovery utilities. you're probably best off using a mix of filesystems, using that which best fits the mount-point. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
