[OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

Richard Brittain Richard.Brittain@dartmouth.edu
Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:57:13 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Jeff Blaine wrote:

> We're considering ditching our Sun boxes with vice
> partitions on ZFS :(
>
> What's the tried-and-true production-quality Linux
> equivalent?  Anything?  Last I read, nothing.

We are about to bring up a new fileserver with ext4.  We've been running 
ext4 for several months in non-AFS production boxes and were very happy 
with the performance - measurably faster than ext3 for large file i/o.

I'm a bit surprised nobody else has admitted to using ext4 for their 
/vicep*, but at least nobody has reported problems with it either.

Richard
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