On Friday 15 February 2008 03:05:13 pm Wael Nasreddine wrote: > Hey guys, > > Currently I have 2 partitions, a root and home partition, fortunately > on LVM array, I was thinking of splitting them to "/, /usr, /var, /home, > /usr/portage, /mnt/storage" the latter is to be used for Mp3z (around > 12000) and movies... > > I was thinking of having the below filesystem schema: > / : ext3 (-j -O dir_index,sparse_super,filetype) (Good mkfs > options ??) /usr : xfs (I never used it so please suggest > mkfs.xfs options) /var : // > /home : ext3 (-m 0 -j -O dir_index,sparse_super,filetype) (Good > mkfs options ??) /usr/portage : ReiserFS (3? 4? options??) > /mnt/storage : ext3 (-m 0 -j -O dir_index,sparse_super,filetype) (Good > mkfs options ??) >
This is from a very humbled ex-ext3 user... I finally decided to play around with reiserfs a while back and I have to tell you... I'll never go back to ext3 unless I really, really have to. The difference is easy to measure and pleasure once you make the move I've been setting up machines like this... /boot ext2 / reiserfs /home reiserfs /var reiserfs The difference in disk I/O is... nice!! and the reliability is the same as ext3. Untill the "cold shoulder" for reiser4 is thawed and it gets into the kernel source tree, I'd stay away from it for now however. Cheers. > Could you please comment/complete/change the schema above ?? I really > would like to speed up my system a little bit, My system is entirely > built on LVM array, and LVM is on DM-CRYPT so as you can see it's a > quite slow due to the encryption... > > Oh one last thing, What do you suggest for a server? I have a Gentoo > server and uptime can be over 5/6 months, everytime I reboot the > server I have to manually scan the filesystem due to errors > everywhere, any suggestions?? > > Thanks... -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
