diff --git a/faq.html b/faq.html index c281ca07..4a3d0e82 100644 --- a/faq.html +++ b/faq.html @@ -433,12 +433,34 @@ Some interesting articles about number of parity levels and failure rate of disk
-For the data disks, you can use whatever filesystem you like. +For the data disks, follow these suggestions: +
+ +| Data FileSystem | Result |
|---|---|
| Any | +OK. In general you can use whatever filesytem you like. Just see the following notes for some exceptions. | +Btrfs | +OK. But ensure to build SnapRAID with the libblkid library to get UUID support. You will be warned if this doesn't happen. | + +
| ReiserFS | +Unsure. Where are user reports reporting speed increase when switching from ReiserFS to other filesystem. + |
| FAT | +Unsure. There are resports of duplicate inodes cases. NTFS is anyway a lot faster. Use it insted. | +
For the parity disks, follow these suggestions:
| FileSystem | Result |
|---|---|
| Parity FileSystem | Result |
| ext3 | No. It doesn't support the fallocate() command needed to allocated the parity files. |