All,
What filesystem type are people using for data storage on linux?
I have a 5+ Tb archive that's sitting on a hardware raid5, using
reiserfs (Reiserfsprogs-3.6.19 on CentOS), and just recently I started
getting hard machine crashes when trying to write to that file system. I
did a reiserfsck --rebuild-tree on it (since a -check reported that I
needed to) and now about 1/5 of the data that was on it is either gone
or in the lost+found directory named with inode names.
This is the second time now that I've had a reiserfs file system go
kablooey on me.
I'm considering toasting the whole thing and rebuilding with a different
file system type, but I'm not sure what is most reliable/best
performance for this kind of usage. It's a combination of lots of large
files (i.e. GRIB/GRIB2 model data files and gempak of the same) and also
lots of smaller files, i.e. nexrad level 3, lots of small files in a
bunch of directories.
I've read that ext3 (linux default) is extremely stable but can be slow.
Other choices would be jfs, xfs, others??
Any suggestions or experiences would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Pete
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