filesystems

[Jack Challen]

John O'Loughlin wrote:
> does anybody know how large a filesystem you can create with ext3 and 
> what file sizes it can handle?

Fairly big, at least if you're running kernel 2.6 (RHEL4):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits


We have, however, used XFS for some _large_ filesystems in the past (it 
happened to perform more quickly with the size and number of files we 
were handling. That was a while ago though, and I'd have to re-test XFS 
vs ext3. Off the top of my head I'd recommend ext3 because it's so well 
supported by so many tools.

jack

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Jack Challen
Technical Consultant, OCSL.
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