[ka-Map-users] Best Linux file system type for ka-map cache?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Does anyone have recommendations on the best Linux file system type to 
> use for a ka-Map cache? i.e. the most efficient file system for use with 
> large number of small files.
> 
> Daniel

Daniel,

Our research has shown Reiserfs to be the fastest. All Linux FS suffer 
from the block allocation issues. That is the fact the files are 
allocated based based on a 4k block, but most water tiles are only 130 
bytes but use up 4k of disk. We have found some SAN devices that do 
their own internal space allocation that does not suffer from this 
effect, but I believe that is specific to the internal SAN implementations.

-Steve