Re: Filesystem recommendations
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> Mark Allums put forth on 4/26/2010 3:22 AM:
>> On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> Mark Allums put forth on 4/25/2010 1:19 AM:
>>
>> Sorry Stan, Your defense of XFS has put me into troll mode. It's a
>> reflex. I don't buy it, but I shouldn't troll.
>>
>> I think you are confusing what is with what should be.
>
> A'ight, you forced me to pull out the big gun. Choke on it. The master
> penguin himself, kernel.org, has run on XFS since 2008. Sorry for the body
> slam. Is your back ok Mark? ;) Pretty sure I just "won" this discussion.
> Err, actually, XFS wins. ;) BTW, the main Debian mirror in the U.S. is
> actually housed in kernel.org last I checked. Thus, the files on your
> system were very likely originally served from XFS.
>
> The Linux Kernel Archives
>
> "A bit more than a year ago (as of October 2008) kernel.org, in an ever
> increasing need to squeeze more performance out of it's machines, made the
> leap of migrating the primary mirror machines (mirrors.kernel.org) to XFS.
> We site a number of reasons including fscking 5.5T of disk is long and
> painful, we were hitting various cache issues, and we were seeking better
> performance out of our file system."
>
> "After initial tests looked positive we made the jump, and have been quite
> happy with the results. With an instant increase in performance and
> throughput, as well as the worst xfs_check we've ever seen taking 10
> minutes, we were quite happy. Subsequently we've moved all primary mirroring
> file-systems to XFS, including www.kernel.org , and mirrors.kernel.org. With
> an average constant movement of about 400mbps around the world, and with
> peaks into the 3.1gbps range serving thousands of users simultaneously it's
> been a file system that has taken the brunt we can throw at it and held up
> spectacularly."
>
> http://www.xfs.org/index.php/XFS_Companies#The_Linux_Kernel_Archives
Hello Stan,
Why Debian Installer doesn't change its default filesystem to xfs if
it is better than ext3 / ext4? I think always is better stick to
defaults if it is possible
Thanks for your explications !
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