Partitioning and XFS Questions

FastTurtle · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 4:27 pm Post subject: Partitioning and XFS Questions

I'm going to build a new box just for GenToo. The questions I have involve XFS and the boot partition. Can I use it or should I stick with Ext2/3? :?:

rommel · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 4:31 pm Post subject:

it would be safest to use ext2 or 3....using ext3 would give you better performance i guess but since the /boot partition is only mounted at boot i dont think speed would really matter so go for stability.

FastTurtle · Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2002 1:09 am Post subject:

That's just about what I was thinking. Speed really isn't an issue at boot, compatability and stability are.

:roll:

Stability is why I'm leaving Swindles. I want something that doesn't crash at the drop of a hat, so I am going to have to investigate the XFS a bit more fully.

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

I would venture to go as far as to say that ext3 is more stable than ext2.

I run it on my system and slammed it into the ground a large number of times. (in the beginning intentionally during very heavy I/O writing and reading multiple times, along with several times during power outages and erroneous kernel issues with development stuff) I've never had to see the prompt say that dreaded "type your root password or hit enter to continue" when a filesystem is corrupted. It just fixes it on the fly from the journals and keeps going.

XFS was nice when I used it, but for the /boot partition, I'd go with either ext2 or ext3, and myself it would be (and is) ext3. The reason I swayed away from XFS was for 2 reasons:
1) it doesn't shrink, it just grows (LVM)
2) it's not in the vanilla kernel.. that's a big issue for me.

journalling rocks...