Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:18 on Friday 31 December 2010, Mark Knecht >> >> I will say that the install on this 5-disk RAID6 running ext4 seems >> speedy compared to the 3-disk RAID1 running ext3 that I'm currently >> using. Probably

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:18 on Friday 31 December 2010, Mark Knecht did opine thusly: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:41 on Friday 31 December 2010, > > Stroller did > > > > opine thusly: > >> On 31/12/2010, at 4:16pm, M

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:41 on Friday 31 December 2010, Stroller did > opine thusly: > >> On 31/12/2010, at 4:16pm, Mark Knecht wrote: >> > I haven't seen much discussion of ext4. Are people using it? >> >> Yeah, it seems pretty go

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:41 on Friday 31 December 2010, Stroller did opine thusly: > On 31/12/2010, at 4:16pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I haven't seen much discussion of ext4. Are people using it? > > Yeah, it seems pretty good. Anecdotally it seems stable enough, I don't see > why it sh

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 31/12/2010, at 4:16pm, Mark Knecht wrote: >> I haven't seen much discussion of ext4. Are people using it? > > Yeah, it seems pretty good. Anecdotally it seems stable enough, I don't see > why it should be less so than ext3, now. Deletes are

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Stroller
On 31/12/2010, at 4:16pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > I haven't seen much discussion of ext4. Are people using it? Yeah, it seems pretty good. Anecdotally it seems stable enough, I don't see why it should be less so than ext3, now. Deletes are *much* faster than with ext3. Stroller.

[gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

2010-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
I haven't seen much discussion of ext4. Are people using it? I have a new RAID6 I'm considering putting it on. I'd like to possibly make the partition /, copy the existing system there and then use an initrd to boot when I finally figure that out. (Never used one...) Anything specific about ext4