I'd recommend ext3 with data journalling for sensitive filesystems. Its slower than XFS but (seems to) scale better with striping and large files. XFS performance (seems to) fall off very rapidly as file size exceeds buffer size. XFS only journals metadata. So on event of a crash, the filesystem structure will (likely) be sound, but theres no guarantee that the data blocks will be uncorrupted!!! XFS is very nice tho, in that volumes and filesystems can be grown with no downtime at all (without even unmounting). You might want to do some benchmarking before committing to a build (thats recently saved my butt actually). > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com]On > Behalf Of Anthony W. Marino > Sent: Tuesday, 5 March 2002 10:39 a.m. > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > Subject: [linux-lvm] LVM System > > > Any thoughts or articles that would be usefull in determining the quality > on the following combination would be greatly appreciated: > > LVM 1.x > 3Ware 7800 Raid Controller > Maxtor 40GB harddrives > XFS Journalling FS > SuSE 2.4.18+ Linux > > > Thank You, > Anthony > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
