Le 24/06/2011 03:44, Marian Marinov a écrit : > On Friday 24 June 2011 04:34:20 Smithies, Russell wrote: >> We have a single 27TB partition (35 x 1TB drives as RAID5+0 in an HP >> MDS600), just formatted it xfs and had no problems with it so far. It's >> used as scratch space so not too concerned about performance. >> >> --Russell >> > I have compared the performance of both XFS and Ext4. And since I use those > big machines for backups, for me the write performance was very important. > XFS was almost twice slower. > > But lets leave XFS alone :) Ext4 is the way to go :) > > Marian I am using XFS on an HPC cluster, one single partition of 14 TB, with no problem so far. See this news on Phoronix. XFS is becoming cleaner and leaner. I am happy to use ext4 instead of ext3 on usual partitions, but XFS on big partitions seems to me still a good choice. Let's see what happens in the future. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTU4OA Alain -- ========================================================== Alain Péan - LPP/CNRS Administrateur Système/Réseau Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas - UMR 7648 Observatoire de Saint-Maur 4, av de Neptune, Bat. A 94100 Saint-Maur des Fossés Tel : 01-45-11-42-39 - Fax : 01-48-89-44-33 ==========================================================