On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: >> 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. > > You should be able to update the xfs modules ... they are in the repo > (at least for 5.2 ... 5.1 is not going to get any updates any more and > is moving to vault soon); Let's see now, CentOS is supposed to be an Enterprise distribution (or at least a clone of one), but updates for something that's been out for about 6 months (5.1) won't be available? Is this because the ``upstream'' isn't providing updates? 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 You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say. -- Bill Clinton, May 29, 1993, The White House