From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1xRF-0000jR-Dk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:59:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 849F91C022; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.3.141]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50540E0529 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=mail.digimed.co.uk) by smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1xPq-0001uW-Hu for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:58:14 +0000 Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 197C180041 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:58:12 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:58:06 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?) Message-ID: <20110322085806.502e030b@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <4D87A7C6.1060502@gmail.com> <4D87C89D.7090007@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8cvs67 (GTK+ 2.22.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/jhuVKvAoHhW/Ns8iDKXk1Pc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Originating-Smarthost02-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5c9c2c22a864c6ad3143316113d4d68a --Sig_/jhuVKvAoHhW/Ns8iDKXk1Pc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:13:48 +0100, Mr. Jarry wrote: > ext3/4: > I excluded them because as I understand, they do not support > snapshots (only with lvm, which I do not use, and >I've hreard > snapshots in lvm are not very effective, or something like that). > Next minus-point, I tried resizing of ext3/lvm once in the past > and remember it was a real pain in a**... Resizing LVM and ext3/4 is as easy as it gets lvresize -L+5G /dev/vg/lv resize2fs /dev/vg/lv No need to mess around with cfdisk/fdisk/parted. Also, letting LVM handle snapshots means you have a consistent way of doing things, independent of the filesystem. --=20 Neil Bothwick WinErr 103: Error buffer overflow - Too many errors encountered. Additional errors may not be displayed or recorded. --Sig_/jhuVKvAoHhW/Ns8iDKXk1Pc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk2IZKIACgkQum4al0N1GQNHcwCgg68XcJVLpyqAzcAJGxoo0SHE 1fYAoJvC+L7gX6kHn/vNjqX+ba1Y6crZ =wNLS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/jhuVKvAoHhW/Ns8iDKXk1Pc--