Re: XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

2008-03-05 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:21:07PM -0800, Nick Webb wrote: Hi All - I posted this question to the ubuntu-users list perviously, but this seems like the proper list to post to (I just discovered this list). I've got a couple projects coming up that will have a file systems = 2TB and I'm

Re: XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

2008-03-05 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Nick Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone share their XFS experiences on Ubuntu Dapper? Is it as stable as ext3 in your experience? Any tips/tricks/gotchas? Any other file systems I should look at (JFS, ReiserFS, etc.)? I have a (comparatively small)

Re: XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

2008-03-05 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:35:07PM +, Adam McGreggor wrote: What I meant to say was... On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:21:07PM -0800, Nick Webb wrote: Hi All - I posted this question to the ubuntu-users list perviously, but this seems like the proper list to post to (I just discovered

Re: XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

2008-03-05 Thread Michael Hipp
David Kempe wrote: Nick Webb wrote: I've got a couple projects coming up that will have a file systems = 2TB and I'm thinking of using XFS for it. Main feature of XFS I need is the lack of fsck at startup (fsck for ext2/3 will take many hours with a 2TB partition). The file system will

Re: XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

2008-03-05 Thread Nick Webb
Adam McGreggor wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:35:07PM +, Adam McGreggor wrote: What I meant to say was... On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:21:07PM -0800, Nick Webb wrote: Hi All - I posted this question to the ubuntu-users list perviously, but this seems like the proper list to post

Re: XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

2008-03-05 Thread Onno Benschop
On 06/03/08 06:09, Nick Webb wrote: Adam McGreggor wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:35:07PM +, Adam McGreggor wrote: What I meant to say was... On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:21:07PM -0800, Nick Webb wrote: Hi All - I posted this question to the ubuntu-users list

Re: XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

2008-03-05 Thread Onno Benschop
On 05/03/08 14:21, Nick Webb wrote: Hi All - I posted this question to the ubuntu-users list perviously, but this seems like the proper list to post to (I just discovered this list). I've got a couple projects coming up that will have a file systems = 2TB and I'm thinking of using XFS for

Re: XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

2008-03-05 Thread Oliver Brakmann
On Wed, 2008-03-05 17:04, David Kempe wrote... XFS is good, we use it on dapper all the time. My largest XFS filesystem is 5.5TB formatted. While I don't have such huge filesystems, I've been using XFS for ~6 years now, without any problems at all. btw, one thing I found was that xfs_repair

Re: XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

2008-03-05 Thread Liam Proven
On 05/03/2008, Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've experienced this data loss on XFS more than once due to one kind of abrupt shutdown or another. XFS seems fragile. Almost like it's not a journaled filesystem at all. It's an enterprise FS from big iron country. It - and JFS - were