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 1Q2fK9-0005nr-4B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:51:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 200A01C026; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:49:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D017C1C026 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:49:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.132] (helo=smtp1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2fI2-0002W8-UQ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:49:06 +0100 Received: from 5353c7ed.cm-6-4d.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.83.199.237] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2fHy-0004gz-OF for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:49:02 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD5530AE for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:49:53 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1T5Ty+qixauE for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:49:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.antarean.org (net.antarean.org [10.10.11.5]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A550B1085 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:49:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from 10.10.11.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:49:52 +0100 Message-ID: <6cb4ed45cc29b7658a628225a6f2bc53.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <4d8a231d.4b0fdf0a.17b1.0d0f@mx.google.com> References: <4D87A7C6.1060502@gmail.com> <4d89b8ba.9505df0a.1617.6e4b@mx.google.com> <4d8a231d.4b0fdf0a.17b1.0d0f@mx.google.com> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:49:52 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 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-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Q2fHy-0004gz-OF X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=0.549, vereist 5, BAYES_05 -0.50, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, TW_LV 0.08, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c4538faee861a1a00144c940b54206d8 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 >> >> 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. -- Joost