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Re: RAID and preferable file systems



Mark L. Kahnt said:
> This is more for mental future reference - are there any filesystems that
> are better choices on RAID (or certain RAID configurations) and any that
> are absolutely horrid?

all of linux's mainstream filesystems should work fine. the only one I
may not use(Depends on the size of the array) would be ext2. If you have
a 200GB array doing a fsck on it can take a long time. but it should still
work fine. same for ext3, reiserfs, xfs, and jfs(last 2 I have not tried).

reiserfs and ext3 are probably the most mature as a linux filesystem, ext3
being backed by Redhat, and reiserfs being backed by SuSE.

my filesystem of choice whenever possible is reiserfs. Only place I have
ext3 is on my laptop(for testing), and my redhat 7.3 box. everything else
is ext2 or reiserfs.

nate





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