On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Florin Andrei wrote: > Michael Kress wrote: >> >> I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file >> systems with the live cd would be a cruical feature. >> So before I download and try ... can anyone tell me whether the xfs is >> included in the 5.2 live cd? > > Well, try "yum install" with the "xfs" string and various wildcards and > you'll figure it out quickly. > >> 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). > > Performance is not "one", it's "many". There are so many different > scenarios and in most cases it's impossible to tell whether any given FS > will perform better than another. > > XFS will likely perform better than other FS when you're dealing with > large files, such as HD authoring and stuff like that. Even then, if you > want to be sure, it's probably best to do some benchmarks. While I have used xfs for years on SuSE systems, and have it on several CentOS 5.1 systems, I will probably not use it on new installations as ``yum update'' on the CentOS 5.1 systems now fails saying it cannot update kmod-xfs. I prefer to keep things close to the LCD to avoid issues with extensions that may not be updated in a timely manner. Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Perhaps, when committing your first federal crime, it would be unwise to slap your name and address on it and mail it to 10,000 people. --Dogbert