[svlug] File system choice.

[David Fox]

On 6/5/08, James Sparenberg <james at linuxrebel.org> wrote:
>   1.  High fault protection (journaled)
>   2.  Decent speed reading and writing, about 20G a day gets added and
>  deleted. on average (different files).

I'd try recommending xfs, but it doesn't seem (at least from doing a
google on rhel 5 + xfs) that it's natively supported on RHEL5.

I don't have any direct experience with RHEL - my last foray into
Redhat ended when I wiped it and put Mandrake on (7.x) back in 2001.
So obviously my memory is hazy.

On the other hand, seeing this, I might change my mind about that. :)

http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/rhel5/rhel5_administration/rhel5_ch-disk-storage.html

Seems to suggest that jfs and xfs are supported.

FWIW, my new box is a mixture of ext3 and xfs - xfs for the home and
storage directories, and storage contains rather large files
(megabytes each). Running ubuntu hardy heron, amd64.

Are you really committed to RHEL?

>  James