Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-11 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
It all comes down to what do you want to prioritize here. If you want minimal downtimes in case that there's a power source failure of any kind, then you probably want ext4 which will give you the fastest fsck times. Or, you might want to check into sqashfs on a flash drive for your rootfs and

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-09 Thread Andrea Conti
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:

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:26:15AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote 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'

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-08 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 05:15, kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: On 9/7/2011 5:25 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Well, for all my other servers, I standardized on ext4. Since a vFirewall have to perform lots of packet-juggling, I'd rather dedicate the CPU time to the kernel rather than the HD

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-08 Thread kashani
On 9/8/2011 12:52 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: So, a different scenario, then: Sometimes I need to log stuffs (via ULOG) or do a tcpdump. Will JFS give me additional benefit to ext4? Or should I just stick with ext4? Simplest performance gain for appends is to drop atime/dirtime from the file or

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 06.09.2011 21:24, schrieb James Broadhead: On 6 September 2011 19:55, Permjacov Evgeniy permea...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage, once-a-week eix-sync + emerge -avuD Priority: Stable (i.e., less

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 19:06, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 06.09.2011 21:24, schrieb James Broadhead: On 6 September 2011 19:55, Permjacov Evgeniy permea...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 01:15, kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: On 9/6/2011 10:26 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 02:24, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 September 2011 19:55, Permjacov Evgeniy permea...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage, once-a-week eix-sync + emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-07 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
JFS is very soft on cpu usage, and ext4 does a very good job overall. fsck times for ext4 makes it probably the best choice for a server, plus it has more eyes watching over it. In any case, I wanted to call your attention that this might not be the best choice anyway. If you truly want portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-07 Thread kashani
On 9/7/2011 5:25 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 01:15, kashanikashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: On 9/6/2011 10:26 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: So, can anyone recommend me a filesystem that fulfills my following needs: Scenario: vFirewall (virtual Firewall) that is going to be

[gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-06 Thread Pandu Poluan
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.,

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-06 Thread kashani
On 9/6/2011 10:26 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-06 Thread Permjacov Evgeniy
On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-06 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Permjacov Evgeniy permea...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-06 Thread James Broadhead
On 6 September 2011 19:55, Permjacov Evgeniy permea...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: 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. You