Johnny Hughes wrote:
There are xfs modules and tools for centos in centos-extras ... so you
can install them for the main kernel.
Ah, that's right, it's the centosplus repo that contains that stuff.
At least I know now that I can use standard means that are really
updateable via 'yum update' and it's only a matter of a) enabling the
repo centosplus, b) installing the kernel, c) rebooting and that's it. Cool.
No objections to using the centosplus kernel in production environments?
Under centos-4.5 I chose xfs for performance reasons. With 5.2, is it
still the fs of choice when it comes to performance or do you have
better recommendations? (It will be a combined web and mail server
with moderate traffic, i.e. not toooo much but not tooo little).
XFS is not supported by Red Hat ... and it does not recover from loss
of power very well. The only way I would recommend XFS is if your
have tried to run it on ext3 and it will not work without the
performance increase you can get with XFS. (All the performance in
the world does not matter if you loose your partition on a loss of
power).
Indeed, I already had some poweroffs and I think I can be lucky that my
3ware 9550SX-4LP has a cache battery. Knock-on-wood, there wasn't any
severe catastrophe yet.
Another question: Can I also find 'quota' in the standard kernel?
That would make the thing perfect. :)
Thanx for your answers
Michael
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