Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:37:51 -0600 (CST) | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: Questions about Enterprise Storage with Linux |
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james rich <james.rich@m.cc.utah.edu>: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Tom Sightler wrote: > > > 2. Does linux have any problems with large (500GB+) NFS exports, how about > > large files over NFS? > > > > 3. What filesystem would be best for such large volumes? We currently use > > reirserfs on our internal system, but they generally have filesystems in the > > 18-30GB ranges and we're talking about potentially 10-20x that. Should we > > look at JFS/XFS or others? > > I think that for filesystems this size you definately want to look at XFS > of JFS. Maybe you will decide not to use them - but you should test them. > > I am currently using XFS and it really works. It currently has some > issues when used with raid 1, but it is probably the most suited for what > you want. Exporting an XFS volume over NFS is no problem. You can also > use xfs_growfs to change the size of your XFS partition. I haven't had > any instability during all the time I've used XFS.
The biggest difficulty I had with XFS (not on linux as a server) had more to do with NFS/XFS performance. The SGI clients worked fine while the Linux clients were about 10-20% slower. This was a year ago so this may not apply anymore. I haven't seen any Linux NFS benchmarks recently.
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