Re:A straight talk about btrfs
by linsomniac on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:46AM
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For maybe 3-6 months a decade ago I was running XFS on my laptop. My laptop had some sort of flakiness, ISTR it was graphics related, and it would require frequent reboots for a while. I remember one particular instance where after a power cycle a file I was working on an hour prior to it was trashed. That was a real "Oh FFS!" moment and I stopped using XFS.
But, I will say I've had a lot of success using XFS to serve images, particularly tiles. Particularly map tiles that are generated once and then basically static. There it has a lot less overhead when formatted with size=2048, so lots of small files are handled better. Of course, reiserfs was even better, but part of that was with a job I worked on where they just blindly rendered map tiles for the whole earth, and so there were a lot of 50 byte solid blue tiles. Reiser did really well with that, though some deduplication or linking would have been a huge benefit.
But, I will say I've had a lot of success using XFS to serve images, particularly tiles. Particularly map tiles that are generated once and then basically static. There it has a lot less overhead when formatted with size=2048, so lots of small files are handled better. Of course, reiserfs was even better, but part of that was with a job I worked on where they just blindly rendered map tiles for the whole earth, and so there were a lot of 50 byte solid blue tiles. Reiser did really well with that, though some deduplication or linking would have been a huge benefit.