On 2013-05-03 1:14 AM, Michael Weissenbacher <m...@dermichi.com> wrote:
I've been using XFS for many years now and i strongly recommend it for
anything besides /boot. Considering a virtual environment i would
strongly suggest NOT using nobarrier (i.e. use barrier). You can run
into big trouble should the system ever lose power. In fact the only
time i ever managed to damage a XFS filesystem on all those years was
inside a VM and with the nobarrier option on and the UPS died (and yes
the server had a functioning BBS battery attached to the RAID). The
delaylog option can be recommended hands-off, since it speeds up
metadata operations considerably (up to 10 times faster!). And for
your last quesion, stay with the defaults when doing mkfs.xfs,
optimizing for stripe width and stipe size and all those other options
really only make sense on a physical machine.
hth and good luck,
Michael
Thanks Michael. Yes, it helped to solidify my decision to stick with
xfs. I posted my final fstab just a few minutes ago, which I'm now happy
with.
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Best regards,
Charles
