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PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 9:31 am    Post subject: choosing file system to a seedbox Reply with quote

I going to install Gentoo in a server to use like seedbox (torrent and FTP will be the main services). I've thought in use ext4 to root system and the other disks (2) with LVM2/XFS. The main problem is the fragmentation and the speed in read/write data to/from discs where the files are downloaded. Is XFS the best option?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 4:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All filesystems can fragment if you give it a bad allocation order, and bittorrent is about the worst real world example.

If you completely preallocate the files (and not sparse file allocate), fragmentation won't be a problem. Some torrent applications can make an intermediate file and rebuild the file after all chunks are received, this also helps against fragmentation. You can tell this if you see the client writing out the file again and using double disk space temporarily after a download.

Rtorrent by default will fragment your downloads readily - you'll see it at most just do a full file hash check but not rewrite the file. I don't know about Transmission, etc.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some bittorrent clients can "preallocate" to mitigate too much corruption
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, if you're worried about fragmentation, you can consider triggering "shake" every now and then. That's what cron is for :roll:
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll use Transmission. It's a good client torrent and it has preallocation.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's an option to fallocate in rtorrent, but you'll need a filesystem that supports fallocate and is Linux specific.

I forgot which bittorrent client I used in the past that downloaded everything into a temporary file, and rewrite the file once all chunks are received. This method has the advantage of quick hash checks of incomplete downloads, no slow file creation on startup, as well as not having to have all disk space available upon startup - just like sparse file allocation. However this does require times again the amount of diskspace free at download completion, and having an extent based filesystem is a must if you're downloading more than one torrent at a time.

Anyway, http://vleu.net/shake/ is indeed a workaround... Make sure you have plenty of extra space and backup. I was planning to write something like that, but I guess I won't need to anymore, alas, I don't fragment my hard disks enough to need it.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NOTE if the drive is ssd... don't worry
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What kind of hardware is it running on and how fast is network?

I would go with ext4 almost in any case, never had any problems with it.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 11:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

P.Kosunen, what BT client do you use, and do you preallocate?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 12:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Transmission and yes preallocate.
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