xfs 4906
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:27:07 GMT, Duane Evenson staggered into the Black Sun and said: It works all right according to the reports I've seen. However, the code required to support XFS is...
Duane Evenson
Can you explain what you mean by "a data file system"? For my biggest "data file" (actually a lot of files), I use 4 raw parbreastions (each on a separate ultra-320 SCSI 10,000rpm hard drive), one ext3 parbreastion (for seldom used data), and one ext2 parbreastion (for frequently used data). This is all driven by IBM's DB2 dbms. On the ext? file systems, there are a lot of files. On the raw file systems, there are no explicit files, but if you do an od -c less on them, you will see a lot of data.
Of course, I would never keephome in a dbms.
Are you concerned about wasting disk space? I am not sure a different file system would help you there because the space required to store the metadata for all your files might exceed the space required for the little files you seem concerned about. You can probably get away with just leaving them there. Disk space is mighty cheap these days. US$1-GByte or less.
Does xfs file system require you to enter the metadata manually? Because if so, how will you remember to enter it for the files you do not even know exist?
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