Hello, >From the keyboard of I., > Hello All > > I am looking at moving some of our "potato" based production > servers onto woody, and at the same time upgrading onto a > journaling FS. > > I need the FS to meet the following in order of importance: > > - MUST BE STABLE (our income depends on uptime!) > > - Must be supported in woody, without too much extra fiddling. > > - Good "power switch abuse" recoverability. EXT2 is pretty good, > except if you have multiple reboots, you need to run fsck > manually (at least with the standard debian init scripts). I > can live with fsck, but I would prefer no manual intervention. > > - Good performance for "Maildir" directories. (We run Exim, > Courier IMAP and SQWebmail as standard). > > - Software RAID 1 disk mirroring on IDE drives. Something new but > very necessary. > > - Suitable for use on a root file system on a machine with one > partition. - (Availability of boot/installation disks would be > nice. We currently do installations from 3 stiffy disks and the > rest from the LAN using nfs/ftp/http) > > - File system quota support (nice but not essential). > > - NFS support would be nice to have, but not essential. > > Without wishing to start a flame ware, can anybody give me a quick > run-down on which of the above criteria new generation file > systems, like Reiser, XFS, EXT3, etc meet.
No one, for a production system. If you want to make a research machine to make some tests, then I would suggest to use ext3. - stable for my systems - simple upgrading (tunefs -j /dev/hd*, vi /etc/fstab) - no problems with nfs, as reiserfs have - could be used as root-fs bye Waldemar