On 19 April 2011 19:45, prad <p...@towardsfreedom.com> wrote: > we are thinking of redoing our existing servers and workstations in > june. our servers is low volume and run out of our home via cable. > > right now the servers are running freebsd and our personal machines use > arch linux, but we'd like to unify everything onto debian because > a) we've liked it in the past > b) we like the social contract > c) we appreciate the no-nonsense attitude about 'free'
++ to these. They don't get enough credit for being as important as they are, IMHO. > we are contemplating the fs to use: > ext4 (which we've used for a couple of years) Yes, this. Regardless of length of experience with it, I suggest having a good read through the entirety of http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt to check the data integrity options. IIRC they differ from ext3 in places. > zfs (we've heard this is really good) It is nice - the iSCSI is especially useful, IME - but requires a separation of your storage systems from your non-storage (e.g. web, DB, etc) systems if you require Linux environments for that second group. Also, unless you go the NFS route, you'll need to layer a Linux FS on top of the exported ZFS block devices /anyway/, so you'd still need to choose which FS to use. FWIW, I'm finding ZFS-on-opensolaris/nextenta => iSCSI => ext4-under-KVM to be a decent solution. YMMV. > btrfs (ditto - though it's still 'new' and 'lacking' features) Nope. Not production ready. Cheers, Jonathan -- Jonathan Matthews London, UK http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html -- 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/banlkting-xb7olc8v0bkibzdwa9znms...@mail.gmail.com
