On Sep 29, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Mike Kearey wrote:
Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
<snip>
ext3 is best used on a RHEL4 system because it's what we develop,
test
and support. That is a very important consideration. Note that
this does
not mean it's the best one on a technical and theoretical or
performance
standpoint.
That is an interesting point, and one that I didn't consider. All of
our RHEL systems are built from a local Satellite Server, but we have
bought a few "retail" licenses, for the purposes of support. So,
can I
take it that you're stating that if we were to have a problem with an
XFS, or Reiser filesystem, and opened a support case with it, we
might
experience some issues? That is an important point, so thanks ...
that
does help inform our decision.
A nice simple way to put it is 'We ship it, we support it'.
ext3 is all the things you want IMO :
(a) reliability, (b) performance, and (c) ease of administrative
tasks.
. A couple more (d)Long support cycle (e) a good engineering and
maintenance understanding of it from your vendor.
Yes, that all makes sense. It makes even more sense, as I poke around
on one of my systems, and realize that XFS, and JFS, and ReiserFS are
nowhere to be found. :-)
That settles my question! Ext3 it is!
Thanks again,
-s-
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Sandor W. Sklar
Unix Systems Administrator
Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR)
Digital Libraries Systems & Services (DLSS)
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