On Jan 18, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Yeechang Lee wrote: > Michael Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: >> Ok, so I'm not sure what the consensus is. My distro is FC4, >> kernel is >> 2.6.14 from ATrpms. My main partition is ext3 everything else is on >> ReiserFS/RAID device. So, is the suggestion for me to rebuild my >> kernel, or >> remake the RAID FS using XFS or JFS, or some combination of the two? > > Conventional Wisdom Watch (with apologies to Newsweek) > > Rebuild kernel <> Good: Old 8K stack option restores > stability to > multiple filesystem layers. Bad: You'd > better know how to manually roll your own > kernel or at the least edit and rebuild > source RPMs. > ReiserFS V Many people swear by it, but many others > swear at it, especially when dealing with > gigabyte-sized files of the kind MythTV > produces. Why take the chance? > XFS ^ Balanced read/write performance. But > is it true that the kernel maintainers > dislike it? > JFS ^ Back by full faith and credit of one of the > largest IT companies on Earth. Writes not quite > as good as reads, though. > Ext3 <> Reliable, rock-solid, battle-proven, and no > hours-lonk fsck. But slow, slow, slow, slow. > LVM2 ^ Flexibility makes extending or modifying > partitions easy. But be prepared for the > performance hit.
Good summary. Remember, though, that the PC Jr., Microchannel Architecture and OS/2 were also "backed by the full faith and credit of one of the largest..." Having said that, I run JFS on a software RAID0 and have no problems at all. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
