[svlug] File system choice.

[James Sparenberg]

On Thursday 05 June 2008 09:29:57 pm David Fox wrote:
> 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?
> 
>

The commitment to Redhat (or actually CentOS) is real, and solid, in 
that it keeps our entire company, as much as is humanly possible, on a 
single server OS.   It makes training, configuration etc.  a lot 
easier.  

As for Mandrake. I started with 6.2 and spent a lot of time in the 
mailing lists from 7.0 up to 10.2.  Now I tend toward debian 
derivatives (not Ubuntu) and Ulteo when forced to have a windows box in 
front of me.  

James
James