<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Pietro Paolini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pulsarpietro@aol.com" target="_blank">pulsarpietro@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello all,<br>
I have to compare different filesystems options for an embedded platform and I'd like understand what's the best way in your opinion, I use to read<br>
wikipedia but do you have any suggestion or articles or references that can help me ? I am not really expert about filesystem but I have to start!<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Pietro.<br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Pietro,<br><br></div><div>I think having answers to below questions will help you decide on the filesystem you want to choose.<br><br></div><div>-> What kind of workload is it going to support<br>
</div><div> -> big files / small files / avg file size ?<br></div><div> -> Flat directory structure / Nested deep hierarchy of directories<br></div><div> -> Write once read many times / or frequent overwrites / or append only workloads etc.<br>
</div><div> -> Will it have frequent metadata updates as opposed to user writes (things like chmod, mv etc.)<br><br></div><div>-> How much memory you will have<br></div><div>-> Type of disks<br></div><div>
-> Will you need versioning or snapshot of your files<br>
</div><div>-> Will you ever need to backup (incremental)<br></div><div>-> Will you need to resize<br><br></div><div>etc. etc., you get the idea.<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Thanks -<br>Manish<br>
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