Re: Help creating filesystem (xfs) and partitioning
From: Roberto Spadim <hidden>
Date: 2013-07-26 01:47:24
And truthfully, for a system of this caliber, you don't really gain anything by using XFS, certainly not from a performance standpoint. If you were already an XFS user on large systems and it was simply your "go to" filesystem, then using it on this system may make sense. And if you don't have a working UPS, you should definitely stay away from XFS. Power failure shouldn't cause filesystem corruption, but it may well corrupt or zero out files that are open for write but not written. XFS journals metadata, not data.
i'm using xfs because i tested with ext4, xfs and reiserfs (v3) and xfs was the fastest i use UPS, but... well you know... some one can remove the power cable... users sometime make mistakes :) hehe i didn't tested the btrfs yet, i think it's not mature for production use well power failure is a problem in any filesystem... what filesystem you consider is the "best"? considering that: i'm running filesystem over md raid1 best = good power failure files with >40gb (some mysql tables are big) a big directory structure (root directory with man pages libs, linux kernel and some packages that i compile (php, mariadb, apache), and others linux tools, etc...) a home directory with maybe many temporary files, mysql sometime create temporary files for query sorting, in this case crud operations happens very often, create file/put data/read/delete file well i think it's a test scenario, but experiences/ideas are wellcome -- Roberto Spadim