Dalibor Straka wrote:
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 10:25:35AM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote:Once upon a time Roberto C. Sanchez said...I recommend using LVM2. It is especially nice when in 6 months to a year you decide you want to change your partition layout.On top of that, I recommend using the XFS filesystem on top of that. It can be resized online. On one machine I made the mistake of using ext3 on logical volumes. It always seems you need to resize a partition when you're in the middle of something. Having to take the machine down to single user mode to resize a partition is quite annoying. Maybe ext3 has online resizing now... I dont know. Rather than recommending XFS, I should really be recommending that you use any filesystem that can be resized online.I recomend LVM + XFS too. But sometimes it requires more knowledge than it is needed. LVM + XFS is good for ultra hard internet servers. The rest of my servers running web, some small but important db, dns, etc. I always use ext2.
Actually, XFS is usually better for DB servers (handles extremely large files and filesystems; a believe that file size limit is in the range of 16 terabytes and filesystem size is in the range of 96 petabytes). ReiserFS is good for heavily populated web servers, especially those which host lots of websites (handles many small files very efficiently). ext3 is good for all around performance. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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