Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

[meino.cramer@gmx.de]

Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> [10-04-02 14:08]:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> 
> > only to be sure to have understood everything correctly:
> > Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap
> > partion. And I will create on big "rest of the disk"-partition.
> > The last one will be subdivided with LVM into portions as needed.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Since the last big partition is big due to physical reasons (not for
> > logical one): What will happen, if -- for example -- one portion will
> > be not unmounted cleanly and while booting/checking fails to recover?
> > Are all others damaged/lost?
> 
> No, because the failure you describe is at the filesystem level. Even the
> volume containing that filesystem will retain integrity, only the
> filesystem itself will be corrupted. As you have left free space on the
> volume group, you can just create a new volume, format it and copy over
> everything you can recover from the broken filesystem before deleting it.
> 

Hi Neil,

yes, sounds good, very good.
Last question: How heavy is the performance impact of such a setup ?





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