On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Alan Hoffmeister wrote: > On 08/03/2010 09:53, Khusro Jaleel wrote: >> Thanks to all of you for your help, and especially Tim Shubitz who faced the same problem and his solution worked perfectly for me. >> >> However, now that I have properly created a GPT partition of size 2.7TB, which filesystem is best on it? This filesystem will be used to >> store backups of various other linux systems, so the files will be mostly small, however some systems do host big movie files and sometimes >> SVN dumps, and DB dumps can get a little big. I am going to be using rsnapshot to do the backups, so perhaps I should be careful about the >> number of inodes I create and try to maximise them? >> >> I am thinking of using XFS, but am not sure. I seem to have heard in the past that one should avoid EXT3 on such huge filesystems, but I can't >> find a reference or proper justification for it. JFS is another option but then some mailing list threads online say it has lost data for them so I'm a >> bit confused as to what is best to use in my scenario. >> >> As for XFS I have read that a UPS is necessary and this is not a problem since these machines are already connected to a UPS (and that UPS has >> a backup as well). >> >> Any help appreciated, thanks, >> >> Khusro >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > JFS. > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Ext4 seems to be missing from that benchmark. I'd go ext4, imho.