>From: "Gordon Rowell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> We would like to stick as close as possible to the RedHat kernel releases,
> and the latest is 2.2.19-7.0.12 which is probably the best starting point.
Have you really surveyed your customers with an honest description
of ext2/e2fsck problems and found that they would rather have the
ability to proxy realaudio than a more reliable filesystem on their
server? I have plenty of experience with having busy servers crash
and with ext2 you should expect at least a couple of minutes per gig
(depends more on number of files than the size) for the check before
you can work again, and if more than a few files were being written
when the crash happened you have about a 25% chance that e2fsck
will refuse to fix the problems automatically. I have never lost a
complete filesystem from this, but I have (very) often had machines
that would not come up automatically. When e2fsck fails, the system
drops to a shell prompt and requires someone to manually run e2fsck
on the partition, answering 'y' to every prompt. So, I think you are on the
wrong track in sticking with the 2.2.x kernels. I've been running ReiserFS
on my busiest machines for a year without problems and will probably
switch to XFS on the next upgrade and the ease of doing that will
drive the choice of Linux distributions (Mandrake already has the
install/rescue on the 8.1 release). I'd be really surprised if most of
your customers would continue to insist on the 2.2.x features if you
showed them what happens when a machine crashes while actively
writing several large files. Ext3 might be a reasonable compromise
for upgrading existing machines but XFS with the current samba will
let you apply what appear to be NT ACL's and is faster at many operations.
Les Mikesell
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