Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

[Bob <spam@homeurl.co.uk>]

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:21:38AM +0530, Siju George wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > Could some one recommend which File System is best for partitions above 
> > 600GB?
> > I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64.
> > Hope there are no issues with this setup. please let me know if i
> > should be careful in any area.
> > Also if a better file system suits for such large partitions :-)
> >     
>
> There are a few comparisions out there but you need to look at the
> design philosophies in relation to your application.  There have been
> some problems with ReiserFS (no references, but there were messages on
> debian-user a while ago).  When I looked at this it came down to a
> choice between XFS and JFS.  There have also been a lot of threads on
> this topic on debian-user in the past few months.
>   

When I was building my first MythTV box 2 years ago, I did some research 
and found some benchmarks, the link for which I failed to keep, that put 
XFS and JFS pretty much neck and neck in terms of performance, except 
when it came to deleting big files when JFS was significantly faster, 
since this is something you do a lot of with a MythTV I went for JFS and 
have had no problems.

The only feature I'd like is file system shrinking which I heard rumor 
you can now do with the fs offline.