Re: [CentOS] OT:Which filesystem to use with large files

Kwan Lowe wrote:

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With LVMs you'd of course lose the flexibility of file-backed targets and the ability to do sparse files are you're intending..

dd if=/dev/zero of=iqn.2009-12.com.mydomain:storage.disk01.foo.foo bs=1 count=0 seek=16G

LVM was my first option and performance it is very very good with iSCSI, but backup and restore it is a problem with LVM. For these reason I need to use large files on this server...

I actually prefer backing up LVMs.. I use the snapshot feature which means I can backup a live volume. Works well.

But I can't use snapshot feature because under these lvm partitions there are ZFS, NTFS and so on filesystems that linux can't access ...