Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

On 2017-10-06 20:12, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On 5 October 2017 22:45:50 GMT+02:00, christos kotsis
> <christo.kotsi@×××××.com> wrote:
>> I just noticed that ReiserFS has significant performance over ext3, 4
>> when
>> dealing with small files.
>>
>> On 5 Oct 2017 11:32 pm, "christos kotsis" <christo.kotsi@×××××.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> If the big data are used often,and I/O performance is desirable, then
>> I
>> would go for two partitions.
>> One would be either ext3 or ext4, with huge block size, while the
>> second
>> could be one of two with small block size(minimum 1024).
>>
>>
>> On 5 Oct 2017 10:46 pm, <pat@××××××××.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Installing gentoo on new laptop and it has 2TB disk. I want to use
>> 1.8TB
>> for data where will be big files and also huge amount of small files,
>> thus
>> I want to ask which FS is best for this. Until now I've used reiserfs
>> on
>> cca 0.5TB partition, but I don't know if it's also good choice for
>> that
>> big
>> partition.
>>
>> I've thought about zfs, but I don't need snapshots and such stuff
>> mostly
>> scaling is requirement.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Pat
>>
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>
> I had a large partition with reiserfs.
> Running fsck always failed due to running out of memory.
>
> Partition was quite a bit larger than 2TB (around 6TB) and contained a
> huge (millions) amount of files, but having an fsck become impossible
> with 16GB memory available was rather annoying.
>
> --
> Joost

Hi,

Thanks to all, it will be dev env, so sources and big DB. I'll try 
reiserfs first (I have long time experiences with this one and have 32GB 
RAM :-D) and if this fails then xfs.

Thanks again.

Pat



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