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On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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>> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > And if you don't care about barriers, jfs might be a good choice. |
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>> Knowing nothing about "barriers" I tried to find some info and |
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>> came accross this article: |
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>> http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/Deciding-when-to-use-Linux-f |
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>> ile-system-barriers |
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>> It says, barriers can not work with device mapper (raid, lvm). |
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>> If it is true (?) then because of having all partitions in raid1 (md), |
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>> I need not worry about barriers. Whatever filesystem I picked out, |
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>> I could not use barriers... |
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>> Jarry |
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> md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know about lvm. But lvm is such a |
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> can |
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> of worms I am surprised people still recommend it. |
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What is wrong with LVM? |
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I've been using it successfully without any issues for years now. |
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It does what it says on the box. |
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