On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 10:52 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > There has alway been talk that if you use xfs make sure you have a ups > as well. > > > I use XFS, like it for my large partitions and I have a ups
The reasoning behind this is that an unclean shutdown can cause severe data loss. Strangely enough I can't find any information about his 'feature', all I found was: > Disadvantages > There is no undelete utility for XFS > An XFS file system cannot be shrunk > Creation and deletion of directory entries is a much slower metadata > operation than other file systems. Simon Kongshøj. "Filesystem > performance tweaking with XFS on Linux". > Failure-handling policies can be improved [2] > The use of XFS file systems on LVM2 logical volumes can cause system > freezes under Linux based operating systems if the kernel is compiled > with option CONFIG_4KSTACKS enabled [3]. This happens when the system > is under high disk I/O and require more than 4kB of thread stack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfs Anyhow I recommend using ext3 tuned for performance since reliability is as much important for a mailserver as is speed. For ext3 optimization tips look here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-305871-highlight-ext3+optimize +optimize.html Regards, Aniruddha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
