> This box is 90% XFS on LVM on RAID-0... trust me, I *enjoy* using XFS, > but have found abrupt losses of power have you lose the last 3-5 > seconds of work you were doing on the system.
>> Then why do you prefer XFS? >> I mean no sarcasm here, this is an honest question. I've been examining file >> systems and trying to decide which ones are best for which situations. >> If data-loss is more likely with XFS, what makes you stick to it anyways?, as >> opposed to using - say - ReiserFS. What do you think of ReiserFS? >> >> I don't know much about RAID. Isn't RAID-0 more prone to data loss? Again, >> I've been looking at RAIDs lately and I'm curious. I prefer XFS over other filesystems within my RAID-0 array because it is the fastest (for me) AND because being within a RAID-0 array is prone to data loss anyways. See, if my RAID-0 array goes down, so will all the information within the XFS (or any partition) partitions, so might as well live on the dangerous and super fast side :) On a serious note, this is my partitioning scheme: /dev/hda3 jfs 242M 38M 205M 16% / tmpfs tmpfs 2.0M 20K 2.0M 1% /mnt/.init.d /dev/666/var jfs 816M 125M 692M 16% /var /dev/666/tmp jfs 525M 85M 441M 17% /tmp /dev/666/usr jfs 2.9G 2.6G 308M 90% /usr /dev/666/home xfs 2.9G 2.3G 701M 77% /home /dev/666/opt xfs 388M 309M 80M 80% /opt /dev/hda6 reiserfs 48G 42G 5.6G 89% /server /dev/hdc1 xfs 3.2G 1.4G 1.8G 44% /natas tmpfs tmpfs 378M 0 378M 0% /dev/shm Anything I dont want to lose in case of my RAID-0 array going down I've saved in /dev/hda6 and have backed up on CD-R's. I'm obviously taking the 50% chance that /dev/hda isnt the one the hard drive that experiences the actual failure in case of my RAID-0 array going down. I'm sorry, I just noticed I actually varied this box with JFS, XFS and ReiserFS. My other boxes are 90% XFS, because I really dont care if I lose the information on them or not. This one is a bit more varied, because I have had better experience with data integrity on reiserfs ( which is what holds a backup of my home as well as the other partitions in case of a RAID-0 failure, I then just go ahead and redo a new disk and replace my backups stored on /dev/hda6 onto the new drive... so I pretty much start from the point I left off... in other words, instead of using a stage1*.tbz I use the backup of my original system which I have on /dev/hda6) XFS / RAID-0 (thanks to mkennedy for the initial RAID-0 push) is seriously lightning quick @ this end, and I have made the choice that performance is more important to me at this time than data integrity, since I do have a backup of all the information on /dev/hda6 and on CD-R's... But to answer your question: >> Then why do you prefer XFS Because I like to live dangerously :p Louis C. Candell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
