Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6/ext4 for /?

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 23:18 on Friday 31 December 2010, Mark Knecht 
did opine thusly:

> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:41 on Friday 31 December 2010,
> > Stroller did
> >
> > opine thusly:
> >> On 31/12/2010, at 4:16pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> > I haven't seen much discussion of ext4. Are people using it?
> >>
> >> Yeah, it seems pretty good. Anecdotally it seems stable enough, I don't
> >> see why it should be less so than ext3, now. Deletes are *much* faster
> >> than with ext3.
> >
> > I get the same with ext4 on three machines:
> >
> > Latest Ubuntu on the Acer notebook
> > This here gentoo notebook
> > Android Donut on the phone
> >
> > Seems reliably enough - no problems yet after 1 full year. Nothing
> > unusual about my usage except the notebook compiles stuff almost
> > constantly, is always running three VMs at least and is hardly never
> > switched off
> >
> > --
> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
> Thanks Alan. That's good info.
>
> As this is intended to be more or less a duplicate of the existing
> system on this box, just placed on a new RAID6, I've opted not to do
> the disk copy as per the thread this week. No LiveCD, I just followed
> the Gentoo install from within a terminal on this box. It's flying
> along with nearly everything done expect the new kernel. The holdup
> there will be figuring out what an initramfs really is and what really
> needs to be included in it. I'm following this:
>
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs
>
> which is reasonable, We'll see how it goes.
>
> I will say that the install on this 5-disk RAID6 running ext4 seems
> speedy compared to the 3-disk RAID1 running ext3 that I'm currently
> using. Probably I'm just imagining that...

Maybe you do have observer bias.
Or maybe you bought new shiny *faster* disks :-)


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