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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?



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-24 11:32 UTC|newest]

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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