wich file system

deano · 2 Mar 2011 at 20:07

Hi,

which file system (EXT3,EXT4 or XFS) would people go with for the /usr /var on a server running mysql and also requiring lots of read/writes to flat files ?

disks in server with be 15k SAS in a mirror.

cheers

memyselfandi · 2 Mar 2011 at 21:49

Depends on the distribution. RHEL5/CentOS5 I'd probably go with Ext3, RHEL6 I'd go with Ext4 for instance.

deano · 2 Mar 2011 at 21:51

would be debain, dont think RHEL6 offers XFS although not looked.

thanks

KIA · 3 Mar 2011 at 10:35

Debian 6? EXT4.

FirebarUK · 3 Mar 2011 at 12:49

deano said:
would be debain, dont think RHEL6 offers XFS although not looked.

thanks

It's present in RHEL but as the Scalable File System Add-on.

brendan · 4 Mar 2011 at 09:22

workstation with recent kernel - btrfs
workstation with older distro - xfs
server - xfs or ext3 (soon to be btrfs - because lets face it you want rollback!)
laptop/low power PC - jfs

I'm pretty sure RHEL5 wont let you choose anything but ext3. Truth be told it's stable as rock and very proven. XFS is faster and basically a reiserFS replacement. I think RHEL6 supports XFS, i think i read it in the release notes somewhere but havent looked.

JFS tends to consume the least CPU i use it on most my atom PCs, however the DB rebuilds are a little slow and it's less supported (although not had any problems personally).

deano · 4 Mar 2011 at 19:42

thanks for the informative post i'm going with ext4

thanks

BigglesPiP · 4 Mar 2011 at 20:19

Reiser, the murderers choice!

VeNT · 4 Mar 2011 at 20:20

BigglesPiP said:
Reiser, the murderers choice!

wonder if it would be an option without the stigmata?