File System ???

Scott J. Henson scotth at csee.wvu.edu
Tue Jul 12 01:24:46 UTC 2005


Hugh Crissman wrote:

>I need a file system recomendation. I have a 2nd hard drive in a system that contains quite a few large files 
>(moveies,iso,etc.). It was an ext3 but I lost this drive to corruption for the second time today due to a power outage. I need 
>a stable filesystem that I can export via NFS to other users on my network.
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I find that jfs is good for that.  It does well on large files like 
yours, and in my experience it is very resistant to power outages.  But, 
if you are able to solve your power problem.  I have found that xfs is 
even better on large files, but it is very sensitive to power outages. 





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