From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:30:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d8b2b5b.984cdf0a.1c4c.ffff8432@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6cb4ed45cc29b7658a628225a6f2bc53.squirrel@www.antarean.org>
On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
> >>
> >> <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> 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-L
> >> inux-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.
>
> What is wrong with LVM?
> I've been using it successfully without any issues for years now.
> It does what it says on the box.
it is another layer that can go wrong. Why take the risk? There
are enough cases of breakage after upgrades - and besides snapshots... is the
amount of additional code running really worth it? Especially with bind
mounting?
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-21 19:32 [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?) Jarry
2011-03-21 19:50 ` Matthias Fechner
2011-03-21 20:07 ` Stéphane Guedon
2011-03-21 21:52 ` Dale
2011-03-21 22:14 ` Thanasis
2011-03-21 22:39 ` Michael Hampicke
2011-03-21 23:06 ` Paul Hartman
2011-03-22 1:51 ` Duong "Yang" Ha Nguyen
2011-03-22 8:13 ` Mr. Jarry
2011-03-22 8:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-22 15:43 ` Dale
2011-03-23 14:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-03-22 16:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Florian Philipp
2011-03-22 16:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-22 17:22 ` kashani
2011-03-23 7:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-03-23 7:50 ` Stéphane Guedon
2011-03-23 9:09 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-03-23 13:04 ` Mr. Jarry
2011-03-23 16:43 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-03-24 7:49 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-03-24 11:30 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2011-03-24 14:38 ` [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)) J. Roeleveld
2011-03-24 17:19 ` Dale
2011-03-24 17:28 ` kashani
2011-03-24 18:17 ` Dale
2011-03-24 18:56 ` Bill Longman
2011-03-24 21:27 ` Dale
2011-03-24 19:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-03-24 21:07 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-03-25 6:51 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-03-25 7:17 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-03-24 19:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-25 6:39 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-03-24 19:11 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-03-23 17:04 ` [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?) Florian Philipp
2011-03-21 21:53 ` Michael Hampicke
2011-03-21 22:54 ` Florian Philipp
2011-03-21 23:17 ` Amankwah
2011-03-21 23:24 ` Jacob Todd
2011-03-22 0:48 ` Dale
2011-03-22 9:02 ` Helmut Jarausch
2011-03-22 19:51 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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2011-03-26 17:26 ` Elaine C. Sharpe
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