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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users *nix File System Choices? Post 302208516 by zaxxon on Tuesday 24th of June 2008 05:23:34 AM
Old 06-24-2008
I think the question is more which Unix derivative you are going to use since this will tell you which type of filesystem will be available.

If you talk about distros and mean Linux, you usually go for ext3 or ReiserFS afaik.
On AIX we use JFS2 which is the standard there and use it for very large FS'es too.
On jfs2 you have (taken from the IBM Information Center about JFS2):
Code:
Maximum size for a JFS2-filesystem: 	32 TB
Maximum file size in JFS2: 	16 TB
Minimum size for a JFS2-filesystem: 	16 MB

But the difference for an x86 box that can carry Linux or a Power5/6 box that can carry AIX is about some 5 digits difference in price, when not even more.
 

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File::MimeInfo::Rox(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  File::MimeInfo::Rox(3pm)

NAME
File::MimeInfo::Rox - Open files by mimetype "Rox style" SYNOPSIS
use File::MimeInfo::Magic; use File::MimeInfo::Rox qw/:magic/; # open some file with the apropriate program mime_system($somefile); # more verbose version my $mt = mimetype($somefile) || die "Could not find mimetype for $somefile "; mime_system($somefile, $mt) || die "No program to open $somefile available "; DESCRIPTION
This module tries to mimic the behaviour of the rox file browser <http://rox.sf.net> when "opening" data files. It determines the mime type and searches in rox's "Choices" directories for a program to handle that mimetype. See the rox documentation for an extensive discussion of this mechanism. EXPORT
The methods "mime_exec" and "mime_system" are exported, if you use the export tag ":magic" you get the same methods but File::MimeInfo::Magic will be used for mimetype lookup. ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable "CHOICESPATH" is used when searching for rox's config dirs. It defaults to "$ENV{HOME}/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices" METHODS
"mime_system($file)" "mime_system($file, $mimetype, @_)" Try to open $file with the appropriate program for files of it's mimetype. You can use $mimetype to force the mimetype. Also if you allready know the mimetype it saves a lot of time to just tell it. If either the mimetype couldn't be determinated or no appropriate program could be found "undef" is returned. If the actual system failes an exception is raised. All remaining arguments are passed on to the handler. "mime_exec($file)" "mime_exec($file, $mimetype, @_)" Like "mime_system()" but uses exec instead of system, so it never returns if successful. "suggest_script_name($mimetype)" Returns the list "($dir, $file)" for the suggested place to write new script files (or symlinks) for mimetype $mimetype. The suggested dir doesn't need to exist. BUGS
Please mail the author when you encounter any bugs. AUTHOR
Jaap Karssenberg <pardus@cpan.org> Copyright (c) 2003, 2012 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
File::MimeInfo, File::MimeInfo::Magic, <http://rox.sourceforce.net> perl v5.14.2 2012-01-05 File::MimeInfo::Rox(3pm)
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