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 1Q1n3G-00048h-HL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:54:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE6F01C04A; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:52:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E391C04A for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:52:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwb15 with SMTP id 15so3873445gwb.40 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:52:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=prBXiqGjbnt/xAD4pTM6N8Lfz1nIqc3tBZd7hzWvfGw=; b=AzjFarCSawaZQHSkA8EbBelrB2yTeBAChZq/TPdVqQUxssRJWaAvs5ASDp18F5ISrG CPfAy8co9Gnt3i630JjOG3+QQns5WFZZOf/BorDMk82Yvpn59uT+F6uInyce2kmtF3XC IEk6f+EkjVLpC4AVPiJ4USS0B+Gi2ZknCsQeY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NlhrXgtGnhsZh40jlGj8g3THp8/EjyFSSZMydz4A1a2fZUTW9MWlPLI/+FV3RzLTT7 +5PQC9v7x0oQ+QjB0U836dejLvrcI8D7Jwe///0eL1CBgfH5Z/lp26V0IXlAxND1Tz2L fLyjfKSHilYm6IK1pu3EN2N2exxdlAaWHibKA= Received: by 10.236.138.196 with SMTP id a44mr6222746yhj.114.1300744353456; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:52:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-90-60.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.90.60]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm211210yhl.19.2011.03.21.14.52.31 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D87C89D.7090007@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:52:29 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.17) Gecko/20110304 Gentoo/2.0.12 SeaMonkey/2.0.12 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?) References: <4D87A7C6.1060502@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D87A7C6.1060502@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1fe6aa5ea4166862a88e55ea5ff2d2ae Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for "the best" filesystem for a small multi-purpose > server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). > For me very important features are: > > snapshot (will be used for backup, must be native without lvm) > journaling > resizeable (if possible online) > > After a little research I have found two candidates: > JFS (created by IBM) > XFS (created by SGI) > > Now without trying to start flame-war, my question is: > which of them could be better for my need? > More stable, more reliable, more efficient, etc. > Or should I consider some different filesystem? > > Jarry > If you use XFS, make sure you have a UPS to prevent hard power offs. I used XFS a good while back, every time the power would fail, it was toast. I never did get it to rescue itself and ended up re-installing the OS. It may have changed but that was my experience with XFS. It was fast and nice but it likes normal shutdowns. Dale :-) :-)