Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:39:12 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: 2T for i386 OT |
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Hi,
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 11:36:25PM +0200, Andrea Ferraris wrote:
> > I used to think that. Im planning on deploying a 1Tb IDE raid using 3ware > > kit for an ftp site very soon. Its very cheap and its very fast. UDMA > with > > one disk per channel and the controller doing some of the work. > > > > All it lacks is hot swap. > > I also planned a thing like that for some more modest servers > (only some ten GB), the question is with wich filesystem?
Any will work. Which one is best will depend on your workload as much as anything else. ext2 still does pretty well at handling large filesystems, but it does not scale to very large directories and XFS is incredibly efficient at large files.
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