On Saturday 25 March 2006 12:43, stan wrote: >On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 11:40:44AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 at 11:30am, stan wrote >> >> >Sorry (hides face in shame). I'm using Ubuntu Breezy. I plan on >> > building my own 2.6.16 kerenel. So my choices are li,ited to >> > what's avaialble on Linux. >> >> My 2 choices would be either XFS or ext3. XFS tends to do very well >> with large files. > >For booth applications I take it? > >How do you feel about reiserfs for either application?
Too many horror stories about it for my trust. Ext3 for nearly everything here. In the 3 years since I gave up on reiserfs, e2fsck has done nothing but waste time when rebooting. However, I now note that one partition on my firewall box is still reiserfs. Its an old, 10GB /mnt/dlds dir, 3.5GB used that TBT, hasn't been touched since 2002. Looks as if its ok yet. But it may go a year+ between reboots. I usually try to do a clean shutdown sometime in the summer where I can roll it out on a 2 wheeler (big, almost ugly tower case) and give it a good blow job from my air compressor, clean and re-grease the cpu cooler, bring it back in and if I feel good, build it the latest 2.4 kernel & install it before I boot it for good & forget it for another year. Reiserfs may be ok, but in the case where it does go bad, there appear to be no good recovery tools. The one time I did have to try them it was so badly trashed that I had to re-install when it was done. Now I keep backups of the important stuffs. :) FWIW, I think the ext3 in later kernels 2.6.15.1+ can do 2 terrabyte partitions now. So your 500GB shouldn't be a problem. Running 2.6.16 here now, seems stable so far on this box. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
