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["Anders Norrbring" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2008-11-27 08:39, Per Jessen skrev:
> Anders Norrbring wrote:
>
>
> > I know.. This has been chewed in articles over and over.. But what are
> > your personal, subjective, feelings about file systems?
> >
> > I want to run something that is fast for use as a system partition,
> > pretty "tolerant" to crashes from disasters like power outages etc.
> >
> > The system partition will reside on a Adaptec RAID-5.
> >
> > I'm currently looking at ext3, ReiserFS and XFS. ReiserFS has always
> > served me good, but as you all know, support and development is going
> > downhill. Ext3 hasn't made itself famous for being fast, and XFS is
> > still a "gray matter" in my world..
>
> I use JFS, but whether it is more resilient wrt crashes, I don't know.
>
>
> /Per


I've never tried JFS at all, but I'm running XFS on one of my own 
servers.. Seems like it's really fast and stable, but after a system 
hang, or power loss, it seems to take twice the time as a slightly 
bigger ReiserFS to recover during boot..  Maybe it's doing a better job 
in the journal? :-)
Will take a look at JFS as well!

I guess it's like XFS, it cannot be resized, only ext2/3 and ReiserFS 
allows that if I'm not mistaken?


And Joop: If the file structure becomes trashed from a crash, no RAID in the 
world will help that out.. ;-) The RAID only covers you from hardware failures, 
not a trashed or messed up file system.


Anders.

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