On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:51:08PM +1100, Sam Gentle wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 2:35 PM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am going to be working on some large files (~5G) and I was in the process > > of > > making some room with lvm, did the formatting as ext3 and thought maybe > > there > > is a better fs for the job. These are video file that I will be working on. > > > > Just wondering what other people used for large size file partitions, > > should I > > just stick to ext3 ? > > I've been reading a little about XFS lately. I haven't used it yet, > but it certainly seems to have some quite nice features and is geared > for large files and filesystems.
I've been using xfs for years and it works well. You probably want to use a UPS though because if a process is writing a file and power is lost the file will be converted to nulls. It's a fine filesystem though. rgh > Sam > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
