Doing a cursory Google scan on journaled Linux filesystems, it seems
that the three ground-up journaled FSes: XFS, reiser and JFS all have
their separate strong points but all compare favorably. Reiser does a
better job with many small files...which would seem to be the reality of
maildir formatted inboxes.
Any comments on that? Any war stories, that is, any comments on
reliability, availability and recoverability of them. Support issues?
Possible down the road orphaning? Is FS quotaing support and does it
work well with a lot (for me that means 4000) users?
Anybody using IBM's open source JFS?
I currently use AIX and it's been as dependable as a hammer there. In
some 20 years with AIX, I can count on the fingers of one hand the
number of times that I've had to use fsck. We had one set of machines
that would drop hard 2-3x a week due to a bad main electrical trunk
splice2 or 3 years of that and the worst I ever saw was having to
BRS once every two months or so. OTOH, I distrust IBM's commitment to
the little shop and affordable entry machines: this is fast vanishing in
the pSeries/AIX world...or else we wouldn't be moving towards Linux.
Thanks! Feel free to contact me offline if you deem this marginally
related to DC.
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