Re: [Moosefs-users] Best File System for Chunkservers?

[Travis H. <tra...@tr...>]

I would say to just use the default file system that your OS or distro 
wants to use, or the one that you are comfortable or have standardized 
using in your environment.

e.g. the advanced features of btrfs would not be directly benificial to 
mfsmounted clients.

most likely the latency and performance of your network will be the 
major influence for the performance of the file system as a whole, in 
that the file system to use for chunkservers would be similar discussion 
of if we should use faster spindle speed disks.

the design feature of a chunkserver node was to be a commodity and 
disposable piece, allowing for expansion or replacement over time.  in 
our environment we have different versions of CentOS for the chunkserver 
nodes, depending on when they were turned up really. So they have 
different ext3, ext4 filesystems on the OS.  We have not been able to 
notice any kind of difference between their performance (or have 
bothered to come up wit a performance test really) .

On 12-02-13 2:35 PM, wkmail wrote:
> We are currently using traditional, reliable Ext3 with no issues.
>
> It has been suggested that perhaps XFS would be faster/better or maybe
> Ext4 or even btrfs.
>
> We have had some bad experiences with XFS in the past, but we assume the
> XFS devs have improved that and/or the MooseFS goal setting architecture
> makes an XFS blowout on a single chunker less of a problem (assuming
> they don't all go at once).
>
> Any comments?
>
> -bill
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Try before you buy = See our experts in action!
> The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers
> is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3,
> Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now!
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2
> _______________________________________________
> moosefs-users mailing list
> moo...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moosefs-users