On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 04:06:06PM +1000, James Gregory wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 15:09 +1000, Jason Rennie wrote:
> > Which linux file system is best for storing large files (Big MPEG and
> > AVI files specifically) ?
> > 
> > I'm guessing ext2/3 is not the best choice, but I don't really know
> > which to choose from Reiser, XFS or JFS. What are peoples experiences
> > with such things ?
> 
> XFS is designed for large files. I'd personally go with it on RAID1 (for
> interleaved reads).

what would be the suggestoin for a file share partition which will have
a lot of small files and a lot of large files (videos)

Currently using ext3, this will be on a lvm partition sitting on top of
a raid5 partition


> 
> I have a RAID 0 partition which I intended to use for streaming live
> video to the disk (though I never got around to setting it up. The plan
> was always to then move the data to the RAID 1 parition, for fast reads
> and data safety.
> 
> Alas I haven't gotten around to doing anything so exciting. It was the
> result of some research into the area at the time that I was setting it
> up though, so it was the best option I could find when I was looking
> into it.
> 
> James.
> 
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