Hi If I understand it properly, you have several disks in several machines, right ? I wonder if you shouldn't create a RAID'ed filesystem per node and then integrate them into PVFS ? Otherwise, if you have time on your hands, you might look at clusterRAID, from uni-heidelberg http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/ti/ClusterRAID/ This is a highly stable, distributed, redundant file system using endb... cheers Bruce On 14/12/05, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > [log in to unmask] wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I am will install SL-4.2 in a cluster linux and I am in doubt about the > > partitions and filesystems schema used by the comunit. We have 4x146GB disks, > > the ideia is to have on with the /home (ext3 with quota) of the users ant the > > other three make a huge scratch area. The question is, for this scratch which > > is the best filesystem? Simply ext3 or is better to use reiserfs or openAFS? > > > > Thanks > > If this is a scratch area, I would make it ext3. > Why? > I believe ext3 is the best 'all around' file system. And if you have a > scratch area, that is what you are going to get. A wide variety of files. > > The other two that would be an option (though neither is 'officially' > supported in scientific linux) would be reiser or xfs. > OpenAFS, and GFS, both are not options. They are both distributed file > systems, and definatly not the right tool for the job. > > Troy > -- > __________________________________________________ > Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 > Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group > __________________________________________________ > -- Bruce Becker DAPNIA/SPhN/CEA Saclay Fr-91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex tel :(w) +33 1 69087482 | (m) + 33 62 739 5720 | (f) +33 1 69087584 IM : AIM/Jabber - brucellino | Yahoo - uctbruce WEB :http://hep.phy.uct.ac.za/~becker "Viel hilft viel"