Re: AFS on XFS or ext3?
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Bob Barton wrote: Hi All I am setting up a 2 TB file system to use for AFS volumes on an AFS file server and I am wondering which file system I should use - XFS or ext3. I plan to use Scientific Linux 5.1 or 5.2 x86_64 as the operating system on the file server machine. Suggestions, comments and recommendations are very welcome. Several people have said how wonderful each of XFS and ext3 are, how long they have used them and never had problems. I have no experiece of XFS but the only multi-terabyte ext3 filesystem that I use (as user not sysadmin) had some disk/controller problems and when we tried to restore the backups verification failed repeatedly 9somewhere between 3 and 4 terabytes I believe). I don't mean that fsck (I think) reported that the filesystem was corrupt, but that it ceased to make progress checking for problems. The sysadmin who actually handled this is on the list and may wish to give more details, but I understand that he is now uncomfortable using ext3 for filesystems larger than 2-3 TB. As I say, we have no way of knowing whether XFS would have been any better. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
Re: AFS on XFS or ext3?
Michael Mansour when are you going to stop the FUD?? Red Hat doesn't support it because it is developed and maintain by its competition. Dependability, reliability, robustness is NOT a factor, it is pure politics and nothing more. There have been plenty of people complaining that XFS isn't supported by RH SL as much as it should be. I do NOT want a `flame war', but if you are going to continue to lie about XFS, you leave me no alternative but to support it. If your posts had said positive things about ext3 instead of lying about XFS, I would have ignored you. However, YOU started the lying, so YOU prompted the XFS support replies. I do not mind someone supporting their favorite what ever, but when they start lying about something else just to support their position, then THAT is something entirely different. Stop the lies and I'll stop the replies. It is entierly up to you.
python2.4 for SL4
Hi, We are using SL4.7 in our dept. I need to install some tools that require python2.4 or higher. Is it possible to have python2.4 on SL4.7? Thanks, Abhishek Gupta.
