what is ordered mode that xfs doesn't support ? On 9/18/05, Tyler <pml@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Al Boldi wrote: > > >Tyler wrote: > > > > > >>Ewan Grantham wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I've just setup a nice, 6-disk, USB-2 300 Gig/disk array, and was > >>>prepared to follow my normal pattern of installing ext3 as the > >>>filesystem. However, I saw the interview with Hans Reiser about > >>>ReiserFS4, and am now wondering if reiser has really improved enough > >>>to use it, or if ext3 is still the way to go? > >>> > >>> > >>You'd be best off trying some tests of your own, using files of the size > >>and quantity you expect to use on a regular basis. I would consider > >>ext3, xfs, and reiser3/4... and run some tests with them. We've had > >>really good luck using XFS on large raids, I personally had a bad > >>experience with reiserfs 3, it lost data on a USB based drive, as if it > >>were never even there, even after trying the recovery tools. > >> > >> > > > >Don't touch anything that doesn't do ordered-mode journaling, especially if > >you use raid, unless your data-consistency requirements don't require this. > > > >XFS is best, but does not support ordered-mode. > >reiser4 is still new. > >ext3 is rock-solid! > > > >-- > >Al > > > >- > >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > >the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > Al... you've given us some "do's" .. can you give us some "why's" to go > along with them? :) I would appreciate a run-down with some more > specific info as to what/why. > > Thanks, > Tyler. > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.1/104 - Release Date: 9/16/2005 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Raz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
