Andrei Popescu put forth on 2/28/2010 8:32 AM: > On Sun,28.Feb.10, 03:20:38, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> /var up2u ext2 sequential write/read, journal unnecessary > > Would you mind going into details? I always thought the journal was > especially useful on partitions like /var where it is more likely that > the system will be writing something right before a crash/power failure, > but I'm definitely not an expert.
Depends on what you're writing and what platform. Most of /var is non-permanent data, /var/mail and /var/log being exceptions. Depending on what mail client is used and how it's used, /var/mail may not be used at all, leaving most of the write activity to the log files. Workstations typically aren't writing a ton of data to /var/log, nothing like most servers, so IMO a journaled FS isn't really necessary for /var. Others may have other opinions. Something to consider is that millions of people have been running single ext2 partitions with everything in / for quite some time. I don't recall reading many system crash horror stories of data loss in /var or anywhere else in the Linux filesystem. My recommendation of XFS for /home was mainly focused on speed. XFS has very fast copy speed and handles large files very well. The journal is just a bonus. My comments in this thread are workstation specific. In a server environment there are many other reasons I choose XFS. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b8a887a.9040...@hardwarefreak.com
