Subject: Re: Questions about filesystem choice
To: Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu>
From: Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/16/2007 17:07:38
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:04:11PM -0400, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm getting ready to build a new filesystem that will be used to hold
> media files: Music, Pictures, Movies etc.
> 
> This filesystem will be exported read-write via NFS and AFP (netatalk).
> The filesystem will be built on a raidframe RAID-1 device, ~100GB.
> Must be able to use filesystem snapshots for backup purposes.
> 
> So the questions are:
> . LFS or FFS (or something else)?
> . Does fss work with LFS?

Not on -current. 3.0 and 4.0 should work if you have a second file system
for the backup.

> . Anything to watch out for?
> 
> 
> 
> Louis

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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)