Re: kernel choices?

adam morley <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:26:08 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.sysadmin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:17:04PM -0700, Joby Walker wrote:
> I am curious about people's experiences with JFS as well.  It has a long 
> and excellent history on AIX, but it still seems a bit to new on Linux 
> for my comfort.
> 
> I also have had a nasty experience with Reiserfs -- no data loss or 
> corruption but processes would freeze and the only way to kill the 
> processes was with a reboot -- moving to ext3 resolved that.  Also no 
> dump/restore -- don't like that...
> 
> My personal prefference is for ext3 and XFS.  I couldn't use XFS at work 
> because our network backup system (IBM's TSM) didn't like XFS.  But at 
> home I have been using XFS on a couple production servers (Web, Mail, 
> SQL, NFS) with great results -- and was able to recover from the loss of 
> a hard drive from a restore.

TSM doesn't like XFS?  Uh-oh.  Guess I'm not running XFS, as we use TSM too.  Have you tried JFS with TSM?

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adam

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