On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:37:27PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 09:53:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:38:45AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
>  > 
> > > So I use JFS for everything.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm at the point of replacing one of my reiserfs's on an NFS server with 
> > something else for reliability.  (reliability is the *primary* criterion 
> > for this server, by the way.  I'd happily give up some speed for 
> > reliability)  I was going to go to ext3 because of its venerable age.
> > Now you hae me wondering about JFS.
> > 
> > DO you have any more relevant facts? or links to facts?
> > 
>  
> 
> There's a filesystem benchmark comparison on ibm's website somewhere (I
> don't have the link) and I think an article on the same topic in the
> linux gazette (from the installed packages) but I don't have them
> installed right now ('production box is small-disk 486, big box is Etch
> amd64, small footprint until Etch is stable).

Would those benchmarks test performance or reliability?
On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems it appears 
that jfs joesn't kournal file contents, although apparently both reiser3 
and ext3 can be made to.

> 
> I suppose for ultimate security there's three-disk raid1 in sync?  (Why
> doesn't mount have a 'verify' option like dos used to)?

Already using a two-disk RAID.  And occasional off-line backups.

-- hendrik


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