Re: XFS v EXT4 was: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

2018-10-15 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
> > Unfortunately, in the world I am in we have ... > jr admins build the box ... > sr admins ... fix it. > I was going to comment on the high labour costs of creating, managing and resizing all these partitions (vs buying a separate 120GB SSD for each partition, at $70 a pop). But in the world

Re: XFS v EXT4 was: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

2018-10-14 Thread Adam Jensen
On 10/14/2018 09:51 AM, ~Stack~ wrote: > We do a pool of mirrored disks with fast SSD's for our ZFS caching. > Performance is fantastic and, as I mentioned in another reply, the > rebuild time of a failed drive (or a resilvering when I upgraded all of > the drives on the fly without downtime) is wa

Re: XFS v EXT4 was: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

2018-10-14 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/13/2018 11:22 AM, Adam Jensen wrote: > On 10/12/2018 11:09 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: >> For all the arguments of performance, well I wouldn't use either XFS or >> EXT4. I use ZFS and Ceph on the systems I want performance out of. > > For a single, modest server that runs everything - email, web, DB

Re: XFS v EXT4 was: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

2018-10-14 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/13/2018 04:41 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:09 PM ~Stack~ wrote: >> >> On 10/12/2018 07:35 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> [snip] >>> On SL 7? Why? Is there any reason not to use xfs? I've appreciated the >>> ext filesystems, I've known its original author for dec

Re: XFS v EXT4 was: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

2018-10-13 Thread Adam Jensen
On 10/12/2018 11:09 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: > For all the arguments of performance, well I wouldn't use either XFS or > EXT4. I use ZFS and Ceph on the systems I want performance out of. For a single, modest server that runs everything - email, web, DBMS, etc. - I've recently switched from FreeBSD-11.2

Re: XFS v EXT4 was: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

2018-10-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:09 PM ~Stack~ wrote: > > On 10/12/2018 07:35 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > [snip] > > On SL 7? Why? Is there any reason not to use xfs? I've appreciated the > > ext filesystems, I've known its original author for decades. (He was > > my little brother in my fraternity!)

Re: XFS v EXT4 was: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

2018-10-13 Thread MAH Maccallum
Another issue is that Dropbox have announced that henceforth they will only support ext4. On 13/10/18 04:09, ~Stack~ wrote: > On 10/12/2018 07:35 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > [snip] >> On SL 7? Why? Is there any reason not to use xfs? I've appreciated the >> ext filesystems, I've known its origi

Re: XFS v EXT4 was: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

2018-10-12 Thread Bruce Ferrell
On 10/12/18 8:09 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: On 10/12/2018 07:35 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: [snip] On SL 7? Why? Is there any reason not to use xfs? I've appreciated the ext filesystems, I've known its original author for decades. (He was my little brother in my fraternity!) But there's not a compellin

XFS v EXT4 was: After Install last physical disk is not mounted on reboot

2018-10-12 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/12/2018 07:35 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: [snip] > On SL 7? Why? Is there any reason not to use xfs? I've appreciated the > ext filesystems, I've known its original author for decades. (He was > my little brother in my fraternity!) But there's not a compelling > reason to use it in recent SL