File System on external hard drive

[drew einhorn]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Chaman Singh Verma <csv610 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Suppose I bypass window once for all, then what would you recommend. I
> generally have huge datasets ( 20-30GB in each
> file). I will be interested in fault tolerance issues in filesystems.
>

This topic is being discussed on another list.
Here's a interesting excerpt:

> Selection of filesystem type, and tuning it, depends on the context of
> usage.  e.g. many small files / few large files, lots of reads / lots of
> writes / equal read-write, sudden power loss, etc.  JFS largely fills
> the same niche as EXT3.
>         http://linux.com/archive/feature/119025
>
> ZFS is interesting, too, and useful for fail over and would fills the
> same niche as some RAID levels.
>         http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/whatis/

[KSB] zfs, btrfs and tux3 are three promising up and coming file
systems, of which zfs is the most mature.  The downside to zfs is that
it is not integrated with the Linux kernel because of licensing
incompatibility between zfs and GPL2, so you have to add it in yourself.

-- 
Drew Einhorn