[OpenAFS] Which file system is the best for AFS data partitions?

[Stephen Joyce]

Frank,

I use ext3 with noatime for vice partitions and try to limit servers to 
less than 2 TB per server for servers housing research data and .5 TB per 
server for servers housing home volumes. This has worked well so far.

Outside AFS, I use xfs for filesystems over 2 TB, but as I said, I 
currently try to limit each server to no more than 2 TB. When/if I have 
more than a few TBs per server, I'd probably use xfs. ext3 is exponentially 
painful as the size increases.

My $0.02.

Cheers, Stephen
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Frank Burkhardt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:46:29PM -0400, Steven Jenkins wrote:
>
>> * What is the underlying filesystem?  what features do you have enabled?  (
>> e.g., the output of dumpe2fs -h or equivalent on your system)
>
> Ok ... I replaced my beloved XFS by reiserfs (3), created a volume
> containing 190000 files. Removing its backup clone took 54s which is more
> than 500 times faster (considered, the time needed by the operation depends
> on the # of files only) than on XFS.
>
> I'll take the chance to ask everyone about their filesystem preferences for
> (namei-) AFS data partitions. I'm especially interested in things like "I
> used XYfs but moved to YZfs because of XX". Please write about non-linux
> servers filesystem preferences, too.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Frank
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