[GRASS-user] Tips for setting up an new FOSS-GEO-linux-box

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Nikos Alexandris
<nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> Filesystems:
> Which filesystem is better(=safer/faster) for data storage? Is there any
> important advantage to choose XFS for example rather than ext3?

I am using ext3 (wth 4k block size) for a long time.

> Partitions:
> Do you keep your geo-data in a separate partition?

I have a directory for all original geodata files and one for
grassdata/.
Both are exported and shared through NFS, so that the
team members can easily access from their machines.
While the geodata/ directory is read-only (to avoid that
elaborated data creep into the original files), the
grassdata/ directory is write enabled. Like this, thanks to
the concept of GRASS data management, we can all
work in the same locations (but personal mapsets).

Markus (who looks forward to the Wiki page on this topic :)