> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 18:22, neuron wrote: >> reiserfs, guaranteed personally. Especially on a mail server. > I agree, reiserfs was tuned for handling lots of small files. Sounds > perfect for a mail server. Also, ReiserFS tools are very mature when it comes to repair and recover from damages. I do not know how the JFS/XFS tools are, but it would be a good idea to investigate how you can repair your FS _if_ you end up with some sort of failure.. >> I've used jfs, I crashed it twice on purpose (network swap, >> then disable network card), both times jfs failed to boot. (this >> is because it trusts it's own journal, which a lot of people love >> about it, both times for me it was wrong..) >> Personally I haven't had any problems with XFS though, but I haven't used it that much. >> > If you go with XFS, stay away from anything older than 1.3.1. > The 1.2 and prior releases had this really nice feature that they > ignored the sync command (and fsync I think). > The end result is that with a power outage or kernel lockup you could > lose lots of work. I had one failure on a lightly used machine that had > a whole days activities still sitting in the OS disk cache when the > kernel locked up. > This is fixed in 1.3.1, > Greg > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
