[Tfug] Filesystem/Distro suggestions?

Jeremy D Rogers jdrogers at optics.arizona.edu
Wed Aug 2 11:08:02 MST 2006


Hrm... that's actually quite interesting since I have JFS on my
mythbox and everytime the power blows (damn monsoon season!), the ext3
partition recovers fine, but the JFS partition requires that I
manually run jfs_fsck before it will mount.
JDR

On 8/2/06, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
> >
>
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