On Friday 03 December 2010 21:13:37 Keith Roberts wrote:
...
Having made regular backups to the hard drive, I then as I
feel is appropriate, make CD/DVD backups from the backup
drive.
Just be careful with CD/DVDs since data quality and persistence over time is
questionable.
/Peter
I've
There was a similar thread about which is the best FS for
Centos.
I'm using ext3, and wondered if XFS would be more 'data
safe' than ext3.
I had a 100GiB ext3 partition, and it took up 1.75GiB for FS
administration purposes. I reformatted it to XFS, and it
only used 50.8MB!
I now have a
On Friday 03 December 2010 13:55:28 Keith Roberts wrote:
There was a similar thread about which is the best FS for
Centos.
I'm using ext3, and wondered if XFS would be more 'data
safe' than ext3.
'data safe' is certainly not something easy to define. Short answer: no XFS is
not better than
Am 03.12.2010 13:55, schrieb Keith Roberts:
There was a similar thread about which is the best FS for
Centos.
I'm using ext3, and wondered if XFS would be more 'data
safe' than ext3.
I had a 100GiB ext3 partition, and it took up 1.75GiB for FS
administration purposes. I reformatted it to
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 14:20 +0100, Peter Kjellström wrote:
On Friday 03 December 2010 13:55:28 Keith Roberts wrote:
There was a similar thread about which is the best FS for
Centos.
I'm using ext3, and wondered if XFS would be more 'data
safe' than ext3.
'data safe' is certainly not
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 08:31:12AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 14:20 +0100, Peter Kjellström wrote:
On Friday 03 December 2010 13:55:28 Keith Roberts wrote:
There was a similar thread about which is the best FS for
Centos.
I'm using ext3, and wondered if
2010/12/3 Peter Kjellström c...@nsc.liu.se:
What about the XFS admin tools - do these get installed when
you format a partition as XFS from anaconda, or are they a
seperate rpm package, installed later?
They are in a separate rpm (xfsprogs, repository: extras).
There is a good chance that
On Dec 3, 2010, at 9:25 AM, cpol...@surewest.net wrote:
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 08:31:12AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 14:20 +0100, Peter Kjellström wrote:
On Friday 03 December 2010 13:55:28 Keith Roberts wrote:
There was a similar thread about which is the best
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net wrote:
There was a similar thread about which is the best FS for
Centos.
I'm using ext3, and wondered if XFS would be more 'data
safe' than ext3.
If your work load doesn't dictate the use of XFS, I would personally
stick with
From personal experience, the last three times I ran XFS on large
volumes (4+ TB), they all became irrecoverably corrupted in some way or
another.
The final occasion resulted in XFS being permanently banned from that
establishment.
--
-- John E. Jasen (jja...@realityfailure.org)
-- Deserve
Thanks to everyone that answered, for all the replies to my
questions about XFS.
I've taken note of the points raised, and gone with ext3 for
now (again).
I do have a backup strategy in place, and you can use my PHP
script from here, if you like it:
On 12/3/2010 2:08 PM, John Jasen wrote:
From personal experience, the last three times I ran XFS on large
volumes (4+ TB), they all became irrecoverably corrupted in some way or
another.
The final occasion resulted in XFS being permanently banned from that
establishment.
Was this on 32-bit
On 12/3/2010 2:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
Thanks to everyone that answered, for all the replies to my
questions about XFS.
I've taken note of the points raised, and gone with ext3 for
now (again).
I do have a backup strategy in place, and you can use my PHP
script from here, if you like
On 12/03/2010 03:16 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Was this on 32-bit RH/Centos where the 4k stacks are a known problem for
XFS?
Both 32 and 64 bit kernels.
--
-- John E. Jasen (jja...@realityfailure.org)
-- Deserve Victory. -- Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire
On 12/03/10 12:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Whenever anyone mentions backups, I like to plug the backuppc program
(http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/index.html and packaged in EPEL). It
uses compression and hardlinks all duplicate files to keep much more
history than you'd expect on line with a
On 12/3/2010 2:51 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 12/03/10 12:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Whenever anyone mentions backups, I like to plug the backuppc program
(http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/index.html and packaged in EPEL). It
uses compression and hardlinks all duplicate files to keep much more
On 12/3/2010 6:20 AM, Peter Kjellström wrote:
What about the XFS admin tools - do these get installed when
you format a partition as XFS from anaconda, or are they a
seperate rpm package, installed later?
They are in a separate rpm (xfsprogs, repository: extras).
On that topic, there are
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