[linux-lvm] JFS or XFS
Greg Freemyer
freemyer-ml at NorcrossGroup.com
Thu Jan 15 18:46:01 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 18:22, neuron wrote:
> reiserfs, guaranteed personally. Especially on a mail server.
I agree, reiserfs was tuned for handling lots of small files. Sounds
perfect for a mail server.
> I've used jfs, I crashed it twice on purpose (network swap, then disable network card), both times jfs failed to boot. (this is because it trusts it's own journal, which a lot of people love about it, both times for me it was wrong..)
> Personally I haven't had any problems with XFS though, but I haven't used it that much.
>
If you go with XFS, stay away from anything older than 1.3.1.
The 1.2 and prior releases had this really nice feature that they
ignored the sync command (and fsync I think).
The end result is that with a power outage or kernel lockup you could
lose lots of work. I had one failure on a lightly used machine that had
a whole days activities still sitting in the OS disk cache when the
kernel locked up.
This is fixed in 1.3.1,
Greg
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