I've been running xfs now for a few weeks and that seems to be fairly reliable, though it has had very little loading (compilling mozilla is about the heaviest load I given it) and I haven't tried power cycled the machine with a mounted xfs drive.
All in all though xfs seems pretty good. I untarred the entire mozilla tarball and it was about 20% faster than ext2 (a very dubious benchmark but it gives an idea). It also takes about 0.5 second to fsck a 3GByte partition, deletions are *very* fast (less than a second on an 800MByte file, cf. about 15 seconds on extfs) Just my 2 cents. rgh On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:10:32 -0500 (EST), Jim Crilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using ext3 on my Alpha (AS 1000A) recently so I thought I'd share =) > > > this sounds interesting. Want to share some experiences regarding Ext-3 > > on Alphas ? > > Specifically, do you: > > - use journalling > > - use it on a SMP box > > The box isn't SMP and I am using the journalling. > > > > > And further, did you try to test the journalling ( like turning off the > > machine in the middle > > of some disk-ops and restart it to see what happens ) ? Do you use large > > files ( >2Gbytes ) ? > > I did some testing by hitting reset at random times while the disk was active > and while it wasn't, I had mostly good sucess but I do think a file or two got > corrupted. > > > Is your Ext-3 under heavy load ? > > I ran bonnie++ on it for a while, otherwise the box isn't really production so > the normal load will be low. > > > > > I'm planning on using Ext-3 on my UP2000 with kernel 2.4.1, as soon as I > > receive some > > positive news. I know of ReiserFS, but currently, it's not an option for > > me. > > I wasn't aware of any 2.4.x patches for ext3 yet, I tried to get ReiserFS > working but didn't have much luck, mainly because the 2.2 patches for Alpha > were bad and the current gcc for Alpha chokes on the 2.4 DAC960 driver. > > > The disks will be IDE drives with a little IDE to SCSI converter, to > > make them look like > > normal SCSI drives ( 80 Gig IDE drives are sooo much cheaper ;-) > > Offtopic, but I'm curious where you got those, I wasn't aware of such a thing > =) > > > > > I *really* want some rock-solid journalling FS and I hope, it's going to > > be Ext-3, since it > > looks the most convincing of the current projects to me. > > > > I actually did get the kernel to oops with 0.0.5e ext3 last night, the 0.0.6a > patch was released recently so I have that running today, if it oopses for me > too I'll mention it. > > Jim > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
