Has XFS gone read-write? Last I heard it was still very experimental and read only in the kernel.
Thus spake Paolo Falcone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > >On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:49:45AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > >> I am a newbie ftp-administrator trying to build a new ftp-server for > >> our university. > >> > >> Setup: > >> > >> Compaq Proliant 3700 > >> Redhat 7.1 (currently with 2.4.9 kernel) > >> Three other machines each with 4x40g IDE hard disks. They are Enbd > >> servers with the Compaq as client. The Compaq as ftp-server then use > >> the nbd-devices as storage giving us just less than 480G of space. > >> > >> While testing the software and hardware we had the following problems > >> so far: > >> > >> Kernel unstability with 2.4.9-ac3, ac16 and ac18 and some of > >> unstability using reiserfs on the nbd-devices. We did not determine > >> whether the problem was on the kernel's side or from reiserfs in > >> combination with nbd. > >> > >> Now I want to try ext3 on the nbd-devices. The reason is that > >> fsck'ing the 12 nbd-devices takes a lot of time. A journalling file > >> system can help. I have 6 unofficial woody CD's and I see that > >> ext3-utilities are part of woody (which is not the case with Redhat > >> 7.1 which most of the machines here use). > >> > >> What are the experiences in this group with woody and ext3? Would you > >> recommend it for a setup like ours? > >I use it at home, works fine. Didn't stress test it though. I guess it's > >quite stable since it's mainly based on ext2, which is around for quite > >some time. > > > >Have you considdered XFS yet? It's comparable with reiserfs regarding > >speed (and like reiserfs faster than ext[23] for some operations). IIRC > >XFS' main purpose was for file servers. I don't know how stable XFS is > >though. > >more info: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ > > > >A file system benchmark with XFS, Reiserfs and ext2 (performance nearly > >same as ext3): http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=642 > > Yes, go for XFS if you want a filesystem that handles big files > satisfactorily (beats reiserfs when used with very big database files, > as reiserfs goes best with _many_ small files as opposed to a few > _very big_ files). I use reiserfs just for my /home partition, while > the others are in XFS (so I can easily delete unwanted users, since > reiserfs deletes very fast). > > Paolo Alexis Falcone > > __________________________________ > www.edsamail.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] :wq! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Harris | Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer | For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
