[CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)
Michael Kress
kress at hal.saar.de
Wed Jul 30 02:32:12 UTC 2008
Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
> There are xfs modules and tools for centos in centos-extras ... so you
> can install them for the main kernel.
Ah, that's right, it's the centosplus repo that contains that stuff.
At least I know now that I can use standard means that are really
updateable via 'yum update' and it's only a matter of a) enabling the
repo centosplus, b) installing the kernel, c) rebooting and that's it. Cool.
No objections to using the centosplus kernel in production environments?
>
>> Under centos-4.5 I chose xfs for performance reasons. With 5.2, is it
>> still the fs of choice when it comes to performance or do you have
>> better recommendations? (It will be a combined web and mail server
>> with moderate traffic, i.e. not toooo much but not tooo little).
>
> XFS is not supported by Red Hat ... and it does not recover from loss
> of power very well. The only way I would recommend XFS is if your
> have tried to run it on ext3 and it will not work without the
> performance increase you can get with XFS. (All the performance in
> the world does not matter if you loose your partition on a loss of
> power).
>
>
Indeed, I already had some poweroffs and I think I can be lucky that my
3ware 9550SX-4LP has a cache battery. Knock-on-wood, there wasn't any
severe catastrophe yet.
Another question: Can I also find 'quota' in the standard kernel?
That would make the thing perfect. :)
Thanx for your answers
Michael
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