[Tfug] Filesystem/Distro suggestions?

[Chad Woolley]

I just remembered this thread when discussing my machine crashes, and
thought I'd give an update.

I've hit the reset button A LOT on this box since rebuilding with XFS
on RAID1 and Ubuntu, versus Ext3 non-raid on Redhat Fedora.  My
empirical observations follow:

This setup is MUCH, MUCH more stable than the previous when recovering
from crashes.

When I had to hit reset under ext3/nonraid/fedora, I had to wait
forever for the filesystem check to complete.  Also, it didn't run
automatically, I always had to log in the console and manually run it
with the -y option to actually get it to fix.  Probably could have
fixed and automated the check, but before I did I eventually ended up
losing so much data I had to rebuild.

Under XFS/raid1/ubuntu, it comes back immediately after a crash/reset,
as fast as a normal boot, and I have yet to see a single corrupted
file.

I'm happy :)

-- Chad

On 5/26/06, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I set ubuntu on XFS running on software Raid1 (non raid boot
> partition, and some extra LVM partitions for Xen).
>
> XFS on RAID 1 seems a bit slow, when doing a mass data copy from my
> old drive, my system performance ground to a halt.  During normal
> usage, it's fine though.  If it stays uncorrupted I'll be happy...
>