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 1Q2RAk-0000IH-3n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:44:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C29571C028; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:43:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F57F1C028 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:43:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so10046993fxm.40 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:43:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:from:to:subject:date:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=tHloMwBqDSzcWPo2FCZDd31xkInWsROxrp9B6R8i5FE=; b=t1waOMDtd3iRhZx1Ag8U0fZ/QE1MgWG4AX8jmEq779A9wyzeu03cFFnUF9ZuzKzOoS jmggoT3lsyMn46L+QICzqsNzV4xpeJuHNa1sFJhPmi8kfUUZSoi506Ng6mhytRB7cuFf i6miZaIWIXHXV2imxZ51+ni9OZk75kSCRYnwA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; b=qS6l6xsZCKtEOfPNf7yHPH73DbKi5jYk3XwfmGE+l2Mw1OSeT/Jv0j260qGzujwNLh QnB05sV4aMVIVZgUvPVpmGfKGoAonV4jj2Hgz188pHKKxqm0asdIIDi3w3CWC63xcf+E Zndjx3o8c7bGNchVwXAaKPzVyAMYWfBGVg4/k= Received: by 10.223.2.205 with SMTP id 13mr2783507fak.138.1300898590467; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:43:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (p4FC74AB0.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.199.74.176]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j11sm2561747faa.20.2011.03.23.09.43.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:43:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4d8a231d.4b0fdf0a.17b1.0d0f@mx.google.com> From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:43:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/4.6 beta4 (Linux/2.6.36.4r4; KDE/4.6.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <4D87A7C6.1060502@gmail.com> <4d89b8ba.9505df0a.1617.6e4b@mx.google.com> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: de3147b1a1ac74c6ffa406a00f021905 On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > And if you don't care about barriers, jfs might be a good choice. > > Knowing nothing about "barriers" I tried to find some info and > came accross this article: > > http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/Deciding-when-to-use-Linux-f > ile-system-barriers > > It says, barriers can not work with device mapper (raid, lvm). > If it is true (?) then because of having all partitions in raid1 (md), > I need not worry about barriers. Whatever filesystem I picked out, > I could not use barriers... > > Jarry md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know about lvm. But lvm is such a can of worms I am surprised people still recommend it.