[CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

Wed Jul 30 02:32:12 UTC 2008
Michael Kress <kress at hal.saar.de>

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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