On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 17:33, Greg Freemyer wrote: > 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. Many tests prove this to be true as well. Search on google for what Greg's saying. Lots of benches out there to see. [...] > > 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. Not to mention 1.3.x is when the xfslogd and xfsdatad were finally implemented. I noted this in my prior email regarding tunable log updates. > The 1.2 and prior releases had this really nice feature that they > ignored the sync command (and fsync I think). It wasn't ignored, just not paid attention too as often it should've been. ;) > 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. Depending on how often a system might sync()/fsync() this is true. As well as any FS options you use for mounting XFS volumes regarding log-buffers, io buffers, etc. > This is fixed in 1.3.1, > > Greg Yes, much better now. Still, even with JFS or EXT3, as I noted before, certain AbEnds will cause meta data to be lost. This is more a function of hardware caching in a non-backed state, such as large cache buffers of some drives 8MB drive cache, etc. (i.e. no battery backed up cache) -- Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com> Coremetrics, Inc. _______________________________________________ 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/
