linux.gentoo.user

On Friday 15 February 2008 03:05:13 pm Wael Nasreddine wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Currently I have 2 partitions, a root and home partition, fortunately
> on LVM array, I was thinking of splitting them to "/, /usr, /var, /home,
> /usr/portage, /mnt/storage" the latter is to be used for Mp3z (around
> 12000) and movies...
>
> I was thinking of having the below filesystem schema:
> / : ext3 (-j -O dir_index,sparse_super,filetype) (Good mkfs
> options ??) /usr : xfs (I never used it so please suggest
> mkfs.xfs options) /var : //
> /home : ext3 (-m 0 -j -O dir_index,sparse_super,filetype) (Good
> mkfs options ??) /usr/portage : ReiserFS (3? 4? options??)
> /mnt/storage : ext3 (-m 0 -j -O dir_index,sparse_super,filetype) (Good
> mkfs options ??)
>

This is from a very humbled ex-ext3 user... I finally decided to play aroun=
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with reiserfs a while back and I have to tell you... I'll never go back to=
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ext3 unless I really, really have to. The difference is easy to measure and=
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pleasure once you make the move

I've been setting up machines like this...

/boot ext2
/ reiserfs
/home reiserfs
/var reiserfs

The difference in disk I/O is... nice!! and the reliability is the same as=
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ext3. Untill the "cold shoulder" for reiser4 is thawed and it gets into the=
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kernel source tree, I'd stay away from it for now however.

Cheers.



> Could you please comment/complete/change the schema above ?? I really
> would like to speed up my system a little bit, My system is entirely
> built on LVM array, and LVM is on DM-CRYPT so as you can see it's a
> quite slow due to the encryption...
>
> Oh one last thing, What do you suggest for a server? I have a Gentoo
> server and uptime can be over 5/6 months, everytime I reboot the
> server I have to manually scan the filesystem due to errors
> everywhere, any suggestions??
>
> Thanks...



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