Re: [ceph-users] [slightly OT] XFS vs. BTRFS vs. others as root/usr/var/tmp filesystems ?

2018-09-24 Thread mj
On 09/24/2018 08:53 AM, Nicolas Huillard wrote: Thanks for your anecdote ;-) Could it be that I stack too many things (XFS in LVM in md-RAID in SSD 's FTL)? No, we regularly use the same compound of layers, just without the SSD. mj ___ ceph-users

Re: [ceph-users] [slightly OT] XFS vs. BTRFS vs. others as root/usr/var/tmp filesystems ?

2018-09-24 Thread mj
On 09/24/2018 08:46 AM, Nicolas Huillard wrote: Too bad, since this FS have a lot of very promising features. I view it as the single-host-ceph-like FS, and do not see any equivalent (apart from ZFS which will also never included in the kernel). Agreed. It's also so much more flexible than

Re: [ceph-users] [slightly OT] XFS vs. BTRFS vs. others as root/usr/var/tmp filesystems ?

2018-09-24 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Le dimanche 23 septembre 2018 à 20:28 +0200, mj a écrit : > XFS has *always* treated us nicely, and we have been using it for a > VERY  > long time, ever since the pre-2000 suse 5.2 days on pretty much all > our  > machines. > > We have seen only very few corruptions on xfs, and the few times we 

Re: [ceph-users] [slightly OT] XFS vs. BTRFS vs. others as root/usr/var/tmp filesystems ?

2018-09-24 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Le dimanche 23 septembre 2018 à 17:49 -0700, solarflow99 a écrit : > ya, sadly it looks like btrfs will never materialize as the next > filesystem > of the future.  Redhat as an example even dropped it from its future, > as > others probably will and have too. Too bad, since this FS have a lot of

Re: [ceph-users] [slightly OT] XFS vs. BTRFS vs. others as root/usr/var/tmp filesystems ?

2018-09-23 Thread solarflow99
ya, sadly it looks like btrfs will never materialize as the next filesystem of the future. Redhat as an example even dropped it from its future, as others probably will and have too. On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 11:28 AM mj wrote: > Hi, > > Just a very quick and simple reply: > > XFS has *always*

Re: [ceph-users] [slightly OT] XFS vs. BTRFS vs. others as root/usr/var/tmp filesystems ?

2018-09-23 Thread mj
Hi, Just a very quick and simple reply: XFS has *always* treated us nicely, and we have been using it for a VERY long time, ever since the pre-2000 suse 5.2 days on pretty much all our machines. We have seen only very few corruptions on xfs, and the few times we tried btrfs, (almost)

[ceph-users] [slightly OT] XFS vs. BTRFS vs. others as root/usr/var/tmp filesystems ?

2018-09-22 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Hi all, I don't have a good track record with XFS since I got rid of ReiserFS a long time ago. I decided XFS was a good idea on servers, while I tested BTRFS on various less important devices. So far, XFS betrayed me far more often (a few times) than BTRFS (never). Last time was yesterday, on a