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 -- Michael Kress, kress at hal.saar.de http://www.michael-kress.de / http://kress.net P E N G U I N S A R E C O O L