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 1R0zQl-0004Sq-Pf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:27:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E30521C102; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 17:27:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (unknown [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54CDD21C02E for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 17:26:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com ([209.85.161.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R0zPi-0001hE-BL for Gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:26:22 +0700 Received: by fxd23 with SMTP id 23so5533015fxd.40 for ; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:26:15 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.223.8.1 with SMTP id f1mr1667576faf.102.1315329975196; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.95.207 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 00:26:15 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable? From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ce7b4d4f7a68ad4ff4741c2c5b921eca 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? Rgds, -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/