On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Crossfire wrote:
> 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.
This is why I didn't mention it.
> you're probably best off using a mix of filesystems, using that which
> best fits the mount-point.
>
> C.
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