Hello All
I am looking at moving some of our "potato" based production
servers onto woody, and at the same time upgrading onto a
journaling FS.
I need the FS to meet the following in order of importance:
- MUST BE STABLE (our income depends on uptime!)
- Must be supported in woody, without too much extra fiddling.
- Good "power switch abuse" recoverability. EXT2 is pretty good,
except if you have multiple reboots, you need to run fsck
manually (at least with the standard debian init scripts). I
can live with fsck, but I would prefer no manual intervention.
- Good performance for "Maildir" directories. (We run Exim,
Courier IMAP and SQWebmail as standard).
- Software RAID 1 disk mirroring on IDE drives. Something new but
very necessary.
- Suitable for use on a root file system on a machine with one
partition. - (Availability of boot/installation disks would be
nice. We currently do installations from 3 stiffy disks and the
rest from the LAN using nfs/ftp/http)
- File system quota support (nice but not essential).
- NFS support would be nice to have, but not essential.
Without wishing to start a flame ware, can anybody give me a quick
run-down on which of the above criteria new generation file
systems, like Reiser, XFS, EXT3, etc meet.
Thanks
Ian
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