From: Ramon van Alteren <ramon@vanalteren.nl>
Subject: Re: Writing to an NFS share truncates files on >8Tb Raid +
 LVM2
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:08:34 +0100
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To: Chris Penney <penney@msu.edu>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
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Hi Chris & Chikama,

Chris Penney wrote:

> I would highly recommend you use jfs instead of reiserfs (or xfs) for 
> an NFS shared volume.  I have several >8TB NFS file servers and jfs, 
> in my testing, is the only free file system (ie. not vxfs) that has 
> top performance (xfs & jfs are about equal) and the best reliability 
> (rebooting the NFS server caused no corruption in our testing while 
> rebooting with xfs frequently caused nulled zones in files).

Anybody any experience with ext3 on filesystems >8Tb.
Chikama pointed me to the explanation on why this doesn't work with 
reiserfs.

But now I need to figure out which filesystem I will use.
Testing reveals that ext3 is pretty fast: 
http://linuxgazette.net/122/piszcz.html
However I have no clue how ext3 behaves with >8Tb filesystems.

Anybody ?

Grtz Ramon

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Gustave Flaubert

  
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