On Monday 04 March 2002 06:39 pm, Steve Wray wrote: > 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). It was recommended to me that all large file systems have best performance with XFS. > > -----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 _______________________________________________ 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
