I'm a fan of btree file systems going back to the 1970s. IBM used it on their mainframes (VSAM) back then.
On 03/28/2014 06:51 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: >> From: aldo albanese [mailto:[email protected]] >> >> At the beginning I was not too >> specific about where I would utilize these system structures. This group >> brings another interesting point, what is the best file system for >> different applications. If I had to build a new server for production >> environment, what would you suggest as partition and file system. > Depends what your application is. I normally use openindiana for ZFS, and > use iscsi to present storage to vmware. Because vmware is bad about managing > storage or redundancy - I can ZFS snapshot the vm underlying storage, and I > can zfs send to offsite backups. Supposedly, you should be able to do the > same now on btrfs or zfs on linux - but I haven't thoroughly vetted that > configuration. > > I normally have a plain ext4 partition for /boot. And everything else is > LVM. > > Given the fact that all my linux machines run inside vmware, and therefore > the underlying openindiana zfs is able to manage the machine snapshots, I > normally don't bother doing anything fancy with filesystems in the linux > guests, and everything simply runs ext4. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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