Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:47 AM, carlopmart <carlopmart at gmail.com> 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 >> ....?? > > I don't know if this is still true, but when I last checked a couple > years ago, the recommendation was for LVM device backed iSCSI targets. > > http://osdir.com/ml/linux.iscsi.tgt.devel/2008-09/msg00000.html > > 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... -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com