You are both dancing around a very serious issue by providing excuses and irrelevant facts.
Did you know that Linode hides the fact that they only support ext4? A serious limitation for a cloud provider and something that should be mentioned in their home page, in bold letters. There are tons of services and APIs that fail to work, for example: - shrink a partition - grow a partition - automatic repartition after server upgrade - all backups - the network helper - all API file access What is worrisome, is how they've gone into great measures to hide this serious limitation, none of their installation procedures warns you of the above issues and there is no warning that their installation images have been modified to REMOVE the default file system and replace it with ext4. (I verified all of the above about 5-6 months ago, so its possible something may have changed since then, but I doubt it) On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 21:41:44 +0000 Steve Holdoway via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > Oh dear, > > /dev/nvme2n1 on /data/mongodb type ext4 (rw,noatime) > > ( yeah I only run it on ec2 ) but not a word of complaint. > > https://scalegrid.io/blog/xfs-vs-ext4-comparing-mongodb-performance-on-aws-ec2 > > Given average performance of linode disks - not a complaint, I'm a happy > linode user - switching to XFS would make minimal, if any difference. Plus > the fact that the only file system I've ever had spontaneously explode on me > is... you guessed it, XFS! > > Steve > > February 22, 2021 9:08 AM, "Grant Taylor via mailop" <mailop@mailop.org> > wrote: > > > On 2/21/21 1:58 AM, Mary via mailop wrote: > > > >> They only support the ext4 file system. > > > > I feel like that's poorly worded. Or at least a victim of semantics. > > > > "support" equates to hand holding and tooling. Their kernels do include > > support (as in capability) for many file systems. > > > > myLinode$ fgrep -v "nodev" /proc/filesystems > > reiserfs > > ext3 > > ext2 > > ext4 > > cramfs > > squashfs > > vfat > > exfat > > iso9660 > > romfs > > fuseblk > > udf > > jfs > > xfs > > gfs2 > > gfs2meta > > btrfs > > > >> All their servers get installed with ext4 by default. > > > > "by default" being the operative phrase. > > > >> If you manually format into something else (xfs, btrfs, etc) then most > >> (all?) linode services stop working, like their backups! > > > > I don't know about this. I've had mixed results over the last five years. > > > >> Maybe its ok for most use cases, but things like MongoDB will complain > >> if run on ext4. > > > > It's trivial to add an additional disk to the Linode. Use a file system > > that MongoDB is more happy with and leave the root file system the > > default (ext4) if you want to use Linode's ""features. (I avoid them.) > > > > -- > > Grant. . . . > > unix || die > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mailop mailing list > > mailop@mailop.org > > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
