[ubuntu-us-ut] ext3 or XFS

[Christer Edwards]

On Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 03:00:20PM -0600, Mike Basinger wrote:
> We are planning to switch a digital collection we run on CnntentDM for
> Windows 2003 using NTFS to Ubuntu Server 8.04 (when it is final). The
> collection is hundreds of thousands of graphic files. Would it make
> sense to using XFS or ResierFS over ext3? I always used ext3 in the
> pass and been happy, but nothing with so many files.

I also like XFS for large file systems as it is more efficient with both
large and small files.  I also did a space-efficiency test on my
external 500G and XFS allowed me more space to actually *use* than ext3
did.

Now, I only briefly looked at the latter part of your email, but note
that RHEL does not *officially* support anything other than ext2/3 so if
you do need to worry about vendor support keep that in mind.

Again, my 2c toward XFS for large file storage vs ext3.. maybe ext4 (in
fedora9) will be better.

Christer
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