On August 23, 2007 09:15 am Neil Gunton wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > So my opinion is to use ext3 for it all. Then one repair tool is all > > you will ever need (and in my experience you are unlikely to really > > ever need that one tool either). The repair tools for reiserfs have > > historically been awful (in many cases making the problem worse > > rather than better), and the XFS tools have had a tendancy to require > > an insane amount of ram on larger filesystems which can make repairs > > very difficult unless you have a lot of ram if using a large drive. > > Great advice, thanks a lot! This is just what I'm after. > > I'd be interested to hear whether other people have wildly different > experiences... if not, then I'll probably just go with ext3 for all of > it.
We use XFS for everything except /boot as GRUB doesn't play nice with XFS. Haven't had any performance issues. And the resizing features play nicely with LVM. Our servers include a pair of Xen boxes using XFS-on-LVM for each VM, several web servers running Apache vhost and Linux VServers, several dozen xterminal boxes supporting hundreds of diskless clients, and a handful of Samba file/print servers. No performance issues or data corruption to worry about. Running Debian Sarge and Etch, using 2.6 kernels. > Also, is there any downside (performance-wise) to putting everything on > one big partition? It seems to me that every time I try to design a > "smart" partitioning scheme, it ends up being a pain in the ass. You > end up with empty space in one partition and out of space in another. I > could see the point of partitioning on older, single hard drives > (taking into account where the partition is on the drive surface), but > on a striped RAID setup that is surely kind of moot. The other benefit > would be re-installing - if you have all your data on a separate > partition then you don't have to move it off and then restore it. So > does ext3 do ok on just one big 140 GB partition??? We have XFS filesystems that are over 1 TB without issues. I don't see how 140 GB will be an issue. :) -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]