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 1Q25Iz-00059e-R3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:23:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 338DE1C002; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:22:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058B21C002 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (173-8-169-73-SFBA.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.169.73]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 541349FAFBCA for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D88DAC4.7020607@badapple.net> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:22:12 -0700 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 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> <4D87C89D.7090007@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 835dd719b60e6f00ae3fbddfa98836ae On 3/22/2011 1:13 AM, Mr. Jarry wrote: > Thanks for replies. As I had expected, they brought even more > uncertainty then I had before... :-) > > 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**... Any Mysql db smaller than 200GB is being backed up by a combination of LVM/Ext3 at a large Internet company with a big purple Y. It's mildly painful to setup, but RHEL uses LVM by default so it's just a matter of resizing to get the partitions you need. Once that's done you can kick off snapshots with very little effort. Not sure where you heard it was ineffective and I'd ignore further information from that source. kashani