Re: Large single raid and XFS or two small ones and EXT3?

Christian Pedaschus
2006-06-23T16:47:32Z

Christian Pedaschus wrote:

>for ext3 use (on unmounted disks):
>tune2fs -O has_journal -o journal_data /dev/{disk}
>tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/{disk}
>
>if data is on the drive, you need to run a fsck afterwards and it uses a
>good bit of ram, but it makes ext3 a good bit faster.
>
>and my main points for using ext3 is still: "it's a very mature fs,
>nobody will tell you such horrible storys about data-lossage with ext3
>than with any other filesystem."
>and there are undelete tools for ext3.
>
>so if you're for data-integrity (i guess you are, else you would not use
>raid, or? ;) ), use ext3 and if you need the last single kb/s get a
>faster drive or use lots of them with a good raid-combo and/or use a
>separate disk for the journal (man 8 tune2fs)
>
>my 0.5 cents,
>greets chris
>
>ps. but you know, filesystem choosage is not pure science, it's
>half-religion :D
>
>
Ops, should be:

tune2fs -O has_journal -o journal_data /dev/{partition}
tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/{partition}

;)