begin quote On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 23:43:19 +0000 MAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I have the RAID/LVM, including root, setup on a server I run, so I'm > aware of this.. but is it really worth in on a RAID-0 setup? If one > disk dies, I've lost the lot, and there's always boot from CD :) if such is the case, then its not worth it. :) > > > /home : backup and keep as small as possible, performance > > degrading tasks shouldn't be accessing /home overly much anyhow. > > (bad tasks ;) > > Ok, LVM/EVMS says I don't have to worry about sizes too much :) > Speaking of which, Ext2/3 and ReiserFS have filesystem resize tools, > what about XFS & JFS? I know jfs can at least grow, not sure about shrinking. no real experience with XFS. > > > / : around 3-4 gb partition. perhaps more > > Does XFS support extended attributes? I am attracted more to Ext3 for > this fact, and for ease of compiling kernels, (I use Win4Lin). Yeah, it does, as do JFS, but jfs is standard and XFS requires loads of patches (ergo, win4lin might not work with xfs ) > > /usr/portage : on its own partition, around 5 gb. use ext2 here. > > best performance, and its no valuable data, nothing thats even > > difficult to recover. > > Or Ext3 in writeback mode? Actually ext2 is still faster in performance, and you shouldn't need a journal there anyhow. > > > > Other data (aka /mnt/store ;) , recent tests suggest that JFS and > > XFS > > both perform very good and with very low CPU overhead. Reiserfs has > > bad > > case of CPU slaughter. > > > > http://fsbench.netnation.com/ > > So all the above partitions on the RAID disks? > Yep, if you want to go that way. i still prefer /home and / as well as /boot outside of the Raid, and duplicated on both disks. thats way my system has some chance of recovering if things die. without reinstalling ;) //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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