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On Wed, 27 May 2009, Paul Hirst wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 10:56 +0100, Tom Potts wrote: > >>> That's about all I can offer for advice. Which I admit is next to >>> useless! I've actually just started using XFS on a few servers where >>> ext3 wasn't going to cut the mustard. >> And why would that be? >> Tom te tom te tom >> >> > Very large numbers of small files. On a 2.7Tb filesystem. Although only > a few thousand in each folder. > > I figured I didn't want to decide how many inodes I wanted in advance. > > However reading some of the other responses it sounds like I might have > made a bad decision. I got the impression from my research than XFS was > pretty rock solid, you seem to be saying the opposite. Erk. It was a few years ago - things may have changed. inode calculation is fairly straightforward too. (I used to look after usenet news servers *shudder*) although these days passing "-T news" to mkfs works just as well.. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html