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On 06/09/2014 14:48, Dale wrote: |
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> James wrote: |
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>> Joseph <syscon780 <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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>>> Thank you for the information. |
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>>> I'll continue on Monday and let you know. If it will not boot with sector |
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>> starting at 2048, I will |
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>>> re-partition /boot sda1 to start at 63. |
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>> Take some time to research and reflect on your needs (desires?) |
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>> about which file system to use. (ext 2,4) is always popular and safe. |
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>> Some are very happy with BTRFS and there are many other interesting |
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>> choices (ZFS, XFS, etc etc)...... |
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>> There is no best solution; but the EXT family offers tried and proven |
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>> options. YMMV. |
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>> hth, |
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>> James |
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> I'm not sure if it is ZFS or XFS but I seem to recall one of those does |
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> not like sudden shutdowns, such as a power failure. Maybe that has |
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> changed since I last tried whichever one it is that has that issue. If |
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> you have a UPS tho, shouldn't be so much of a problem, unless your power |
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> supply goes out. |
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XFS. |
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It was designed by SGI for their video rendeing workstations back in the |
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day and used very aggressive caching to get enormous throughput. It was |
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also brilliant at dealing with directories containing thousands of small |
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files - not unusual when dealing with video editing. |
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However, it was also designed for environments where the power is |
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guaranteed to never go off (which explains why they decided to go with |
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such aggressive caching). If you use it in environments where powerouts |
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are not guaranteed to not happen, well...... |
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ZFS is the most resilient filesystem I've ever used, you can through the |
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bucket and kitchen sink at it and it really doesn't give a shit (it just |
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deals with it :-) ) |
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> Just a little heads up in case it matters. |
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> Oh, I use ext2 for /boot and ext4 for everything else, some of that on |
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> top of LVM. I switched from reiserfs a good while back, bit rot. So |
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> far, I been really pleased with ext4. |
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Yeah, that's a pretty normal default setup, it performs well across the |
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boards for average desktop and server loads |
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Alan McKinnon |
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