[mdlug] Best File System for 1TB Raid5

[Ron Blanchett]

I know that XFS is one of the best for large files. I don't know about JFS.

-Ron

On 7/8/08, Stan Green <Stan at mcomputersolutions.com> wrote:
> I recently added three 500gb SATA drives, using a Promise SATA300 Tx4
>  controller, configured with software Raid as Raid5. The file system is EXT3.
>  However, I have seen two instances of EXT3 becoming read-only due to errors.
>  I have had to run fsck.ext3 have seen a large (+200) number of errors in the
>  file system. (Not sure why.)
>
>  This got me to thinking is EXT3 the best, most stable, file system for this
>  size of partition? The data includes both very large files (+4GB) and a large
>  number of small files. From what I have read so far, it look like either JFS
>  or XFS might be the way to go.
>
>  I am still in testing mode for this configuration, so I can change file
>  systems if it will result in a better system.
>
>  Any thoughts on what file system would be best for this configuration?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Stan Green
>
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