Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: File server FS? | From | Steve Lord <> | Date | 14 Nov 2001 09:10:17 -0600 |
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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.
Steve
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