Re: Filesystems -- was: Linux in a School envrionment

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>PLUS, SGI has modified the Redhat 7 Anaconda installer to
>>>include support for XFS in the install process!!!
>>>Combine that with 2.4 kernel RPM's with XFS support, and we
>>>could make a new and improved "BSware-PRO" edition!  :-)
>>>Any interest?
>>Me! Me! Me!  Actually I'd want it for RH7.1 (currently wolverine beta), as I
>>don't intend to go through upgrading again until then.  My box at home
>>is still RH6.2. 
>SGI doesn't have a modified Anaconda installer for Wolverine,
>but they do plan on a modified installer for official 7.1 when
>it is released.
>I probably won't bother with 7.0, and wait for 7.1 to try this,
>as 7.1 should be coming out fairly soon.

I concur.

>>The performance of ext2 for a couple of things I do is becoming a
>>mild annoyance.
>Yes, it's especially annoying with directories that contain a 
>large number of files.

It's murdering my PostgreSQL DB at this point, but I don't trust Reiserfs that
much.  Squid cache is one thing, real data is another.

>>On an aside note, has anyone done any upgrades on boxes containing
>>Resiserfs paritions, etc..., that RH's installer doesn't support?  How
>>smoothly does that go?  (All such paritions for me are "non-critical",
>>/var/spool/squid,etc..., 
>>but I haven't done an upgrade on those boxes yet.)
>When I've done it, I've either temporally converted all ReiserFS
>to ext2, or took them out of /etc/fstab and changed the partition
>types to something other than Linux-83 (like BEOS).   After the 
>upgrade, I change everything back.

Gotcha.  Fake it out.

>>And how does one backup a filesystem containing ACLs?
>Good question!

XFS appears to come with a "dump" & "restore",  but I've never been a fan of
dump and it's brethren.

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