On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Pietro Paolini <pulsarpietro@aol.com>wrote:
Hello all, 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 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!
Thanks, Pietro.
Hi Pietro, I think having answers to below questions will help you decide on the filesystem you want to choose. -> What kind of workload is it going to support -> big files / small files / avg file size ? -> Flat directory structure / Nested deep hierarchy of directories -> Write once read many times / or frequent overwrites / or append only workloads etc. -> Will it have frequent metadata updates as opposed to user writes (things like chmod, mv etc.) -> How much memory you will have -> Type of disks -> Will you need versioning or snapshot of your files -> Will you ever need to backup (incremental) -> Will you need to resize etc. etc., you get the idea. -- Thanks - Manish