Subject: Re: giant filesystem: which type to use?
To: Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/19/2005 00:50:55
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:57:17PM -0500, Louis Guillaume wrote:
  | But getting back to the real question...
  |=20
  | I'm still curious about filesystem size limitations for NetBSD.
  |=20
  | (let's lower the bar)
  |=20
  | Given a 1TB filesystem (I think its "giant"), served up via AFP, CIFS=
=20
  | and NFS to ~600 simultaneous users from a NetBSD 2.0 server,  what is=
=20
  | better/more mature/more stable - LFS or FFSv2?

I'd avoid both and use FFSv1.
LFS is still flaky for "real" data.
FFSv2 has twice metadata overhead and you don't need that for less
than 2TB file systems.


  | Are there other options for NetBSD? ext3fs? jfs? xfs?

Unfortunately, not at this time.

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