[NTLUG:Discuss] Saturday's meeting topic?

[David Stanaway]

>From the doubt link referenced earlier, going up a directory, it looks
like some important buffer handling is only properly handled by reiser
and xfs, and not in all modes. Other fs: ext2, ext3, jfs didn't do well
in the tests for proper use of the write barrier. I am not sure of the
full implications of this, but it tells me that you could potentially
get crash conditions that would lead to corrupted meta data with the
other filesystems due to improper handling of the drive controllers
write buffer.

Eric Waguespack wrote:
> I for one am going to stick with ext3, and then ext4 when it is
> stable, when it comes to file systems I'll take reliability over speed
> anytime.
> 
> On 10/22/06, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
>> Chris Cox wrote:
>>> Wayne Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>> I could talk about VMware Workstation and Server if anyone's interested.
>>>> My trip to the Ruby conference got cancelled, so I should make
>>>> tomorrow's meeting.
>>>>
>>> My benchmark discussion will be short... maybe both of us present?
>>>
>>> My results are for reiserfs (v3), jfs, ext3, ext2 and xfs  using
>>> 4G, 10G and 50G file loads under bonnie++.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Wayne
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:47:53AM -0500, Michael Barnes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Was there ever a decision made on the topic for tomorrow?
>>>>>
>>>>> Just wondering,
>>>>> Michael
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>> I wish I could have made it but I had a long weekend at work.  Is there
>> a posting of the presentation?
>>
>> Also, with all the  remarks about Reiserfs killing things, I'm wondering
>> about reliability as well.  It's nice to have speed but something that
>> speedily trashes you data isn't a solution.  I found a hit on the Web
>> which was a copy of a SuSE administration guide which basically stated
>> that Reiserfs, JFS and XFS all journaled metadata only and thus the data
>> itself was at risk.  Is ext3 the only file system capable of journaling
>> both?
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