[ale] Centos

[JD]

JFS rocked.  I never lost a bit in 5-10 yrs running it on AIX and Linux.

See how 1 data point doesn't make for valid statistics? You and I have
completely different experiences. Compared to the other options, it was great.

I was using ext3 and jfs. I did migrate from ext2 to ext3 relatively quickly.
Journaling matters.  We probably both remember the hours waiting for ufs fscks
to complete.


On 07/25/2014 03:33 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> yep. XFS on Irix was painful. IRIX was painful (but the hardware was
> really, really cool!)
> 
> The download from somewhere other than CentOS disks will likely not have
> XFS support. But then I always have a live DVD of the current CentOS anyway
> and it has support for everything the main install system does.
> 
> I used JFS for about 2 months and decided I liked pretty much anything else
> better. It was very fast and both delivering files and losing inode data
> about them once they were open. I've not revisited that one.
> 
> So you _just_ moved to ext4. from what ext compiled with a.out format
> binaries?
> 
> :-}
> 
> If I had the RAM horsepower to run dedupe portion of ZFS it would be very
> useful. But I really don't understand the fascination with doing filesystem
> snapshots. My old-geezer factor is gimme a damn tape backup system. I want
> important stuff in at least 2 different locations. Filesystem snapshots
> tend to get stored on the same hard drives the real filesystem is on so
> that's useless from my perspective.
>