On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:42:45PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hi Roberto. > > Roberto C. Sanchez, 12.03.2007 21:07: > > There is a ton of information about JFS and XFS on the net. All you > > need to do is check the Wikipedia filesystem comparison page or Google > > search for filesystem comparisons. The short of it is: > > > > ext3 - good general purpose FS (not the best performance, but stable) > > xfs - excellent performance with huge files and huge filesystems > > jfs - similar to XFS but I think it has better performance when under > > heavy I/O load > > Could you define 'huge files' and 'huge filesystems'? Can you give me some > numbers? >
At work we deal with files of size 1 GB to 100 GB on a regular basis. I would classify those as large. XFS supports files up to a size of 8 exabytes and filesystems also of size 8 exabytes. I am not sure of the limitations on JFS. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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