On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:51:17AM -0700, Joel Johnson wrote: > I have had not issues using LVM with root on it. You'll save yourself > alot of headache by putting a regular,small /boot partition at the > beginning of the drive, then using the rest for LVM if you're so inclined. > > I'd like to get others opinions on filesystems on LVM - I've been using > XFS which lets you grow the filesystem online. What are others' > experiences with various filesystems. Reiser and I believe ext3 are > growable and shrinkable, but only offline. Any other points to consider?
I have been very disappointed in the stability of 2.6.8 + raid1 md + lvm + xfs + nfs + samba. Leaks memory like mad, runs out of ram, crashes, requires lengthy xfsrepair runs after a crash, and performance nowhere near what it should be. I have now switch to ext3 instead on the same setup, and it has run flawlessly since, no crashes, no memory leaks, much faster. I don't get it since xfs should be a very good filesystem, but it seems there are bugs in 2.6 that make it unusable in certain setups. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
