tir, 2001-11-06 kl. 09:03 skrev I. Forbes: > I am looking at moving some of our "potato" based production > servers onto woody, and at the same time upgrading onto a > journaling FS. Sounds interesting. > I need the FS to meet the following in order of importance: > > - MUST BE STABLE (our income depends on uptime!) Hard to say, however, I have had some serious crashes with reiserfs. At one point it blew my partition into pieces, at a reinstall was needed (reiserfs from kernel 2.4.8). > - Must be supported in woody, without too much extra fiddling. I know at least that reiser and xfs is - haven't done installation on xfs/ext3, but it should be easy to find some bootfloppies that do the job.
> - 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. I beleive all of them have, it's one of the fine things with journaling filsystems. > - File system quota support (nice but not essential). xfs, and ext3 have quota support - I'm not sure about Reiser... xfs even has acl support (which ext3 doesn't have without some patching)... > - NFS support would be nice to have, but not essential. I might be wrong here - but I beleive that NFS supports every filesystem that the kernel supports... > 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. And I can only add to this, that my comments aren't ment to start any flame war either, just sharing some experience and some though. I would either go with ext3 (which even is ext2 compatible AFAIK) or XFS. They really seem to be the most stable. Reiser is not bad, but I have had some terrible experiences with it - however, I do still use it, it is nice, but IMHO not suited for production systems yet (allthough I beleive that many people do actually use it in production). -- Paul Fleischer // ProGuy Registered Linux User #166300 http://counter.li.org