N7700 raid fs?

[mpetrov]

Could you please advise me what type of FS should I choose for the RAID on my N7700? I want RAID6 on 4 WD 1TB HDD-s.
Which one of the EXT3, ZFS or XFS to choose and what stripe size - 64K or 16K?

My intention is to create only two folders, each of about 1TB to be used as network shares by my Windows XP desktops.

Thank you,
mpetrov

[peterfu]

Choose xfs, thast more future proof if You go for larger harddiscs later, cause ext3 has a limit of 8TB and zfs has problesm with ACL.

The strip size is depending if You have many large or small files - many small files the strip size should be smaller, many large files the strip size should be bigger. But the performance difference is not so big, so take the default one and You will be fine.

br
Peter