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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] [off-topic] Admin advice
  • Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:46:41 -0700

On Thursday 19 April 2007 07:24:31 Mathieu L. wrote:
> Thanks to all for the replies.
> On the same topic, what would you recommend as a filesystem for the one
> which is nfs served?
> It's currently some ext3, but I'd like to switch to the most appropriate
> when we decide to change the whole raid bay.

ext3 is the safest, but not necessarily the fastest. I've had good luck with
reiserfs (v3), but only use that on clients. My servers all use ext3 (with
noatime).

I will *never* use JFS on any machine. I have tried it several times on two
different machines and each time I would quickly end up with a read-only "/"
that had to have the fsck.jfs tools run on it.

XFS seems stable enough, but seemed a bit slow when used on my laptop.

> As a quick fix to our current problem I wanted to try to reformat the
> partition believed to be the failing one to reiserfs (because that's the
> only one I've already used besides ext3) but I have no idea whether that
> would be a smart choice or not. I gave up on that anyway because the
> stupid default scientific linux kernel doesn't support reiser
> apparently. ( and I don't want to fiddle with that as I intent to wipe
> this distro as soon as possible).

As I stated above, ReiserFS (v3, at least) is very nice. I haven't had any
noticable corruption on it, but for servers I stick to the tried and true
ext3.

-sandalle

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