Les Mikesell wrote:
> carlopmart wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Recently I have installed a centOS 5.4 server to use as a home NAS server. I need
>> to use large files (8GB minimum) inside of it to serve via iSCSI services. Which
>> filesystem do you recommends me to reach maximum performance: xfs, ext3, ext4, gfs2
>> ....??
>
> None of them should have a problem with large files and any differences
> in the filesystem metadata handling will be covered up by the underlying
> disk access speed of a large amount of data per file. The bigger
> differences are in how fast they can create or delete large numbers of
> files.
>
Thanks Les. then if I would to use sparse files to create these large files, which
can be the best form: dd of qcow2 format for example??
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