Re: Adding a drive

On 2007-10-30, Vahis <waxborg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tips: If you will have it for large video files, use xfs , if you
will use a huge number of small files use reiser.
And if you can stand a forced fsck every 70 days or so, ext3.

/bb

Your comment about filesystems got me interested.

Let's assume we have a server with a separate system disk with swap, /
and /home. This is always my normal case.

Then that server carries some 20.000 .mp3 files and 1.000 or so .avi and
.mpg files plus like a few thousand .jpg files.
That's peanuts. No special care needed for 20.000 files. Just don't put them
all in the same dir. (but even that will work)

I have a project here, a data structure with image and video files, containing
over 290.000 files in 5.000 dirs.
I use Ext3 because the files are not *that* small that I would lose a lot of
space to allocation blocks. And Ext3 is fast.

I keep reading that ReiserFS is 'like 10 times faster' than Ext3, but that's
not what I see. Quite the reverse, actually, I reformatted a partition
dedicated to a newsserver's spool because the maintenance took 25 min to
run. After reformatting to Ext3, the same procedure, on the same data, ran
in 2'14".

Let's assume there will be separate disks and their mount points for
video, music and photos.
No need, unless if you want to share separate dirs to separate people.

I'm asking this because I'm planning to gradually go to that and start
to use SATA disks, with a PCI card to start with.
Great, you'll see an increase in speed. From the hardware, not the soft.


Remember backups. :-)

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