Messages in this thread | | | From | Robert Szentmihalyi <> | Subject | Re: File server FS? | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:09:39 +0100 |
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> On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 04:41, Robert Szentmihalyi wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2001 03:05 schrieb Sean Elble: > > > I'd have to recommend XFS for you . . . it supports the > > > kernel mode NFS server very well, it supports LVM, an XFS > > > file system can be enlarged (not reduced), and XFS has great > > > quota support, just be sure you use a 3.0 or greater quota > > > tools package. Why use XFS over Ext3 you ask? XFS is faster, > > > and scales better, IMHO. Again just my opinion, but I hope > > > that helps. > > > > ACK. > > We have built an 800 GB file server for a customer about three > > month ago using XFS on a 3ware RAID. > > The server performs great, even under heay load. > > The only drawback is that group quotas were not yet supported > > then. I don't know if this has changed yet, but it should be > > fairly easy to find out..... :-) > > > > cheers, > > Robert > > XFS on linux has had group quota support for quite a while - > certainly longer than 3 months. All the other features are > available too.
Nice to know :-) I have not tried it since the FAQ at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#quotaswork said it didn't. (It still does, by the way. Perhaps you could update the FAQ :-))
> > Steve
Robert
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