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 1R10Ch-0003XC-SB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:17:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54A9421C02E; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A375821C02E for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:15:39 +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 ED4D69FAFBC9 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E666347.2080108@badapple.net> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:15:35 -0700 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.1) Gecko/20110830 Thunderbird/6.0.1 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] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 39a05afdf6506c311f7ac4ea58a2e540 On 9/6/2011 10:26 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > So, can anyone recommend me a filesystem that fulfills my following needs: > > Scenario: vFirewall (virtual Firewall) that is going to be deployed at > my IaaS Cloud Provider. > > Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage, > once-a-week eix-sync + emerge -avuD > > Priority: Stable (i.e., less chance of corruption), least CPU usage. > > My Google-Fu seems to indicate either XFS or JFS; what do you think? I think it's a useless local optimization for no real world gain which only increases the complexity of your systems. Use the same filesystem you use on all your other servers. kashani