[Ubuntu-BD] Ext3 or jfs
dark lord
darklord2007 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 23 13:19:03 GMT 2008
Well that warning make me afraid i choose jfs . I hope jfs is not bad
at . Hasin vi suggested it at first ubuntu party.
On 11/23/08, Angel <fedora at linux.org.bd> wrote:
> That is a legitimate warning that has been in every Debian and Ubuntu
> release and appropriately applicable, I think.
>
> Due to an interaction between GRUB and XFS, sometimes the grub-install
> command will hang when the installer attempts to install grub to an XFS
> partition.
>
> Unless you are comfortable with installing grub by hand in case the
> installer hangs, you should make a separate ext3 /boot partition (roughly
> 100MB in size) so that GRUB can reliably install.
>
>
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> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:34 PM, dark lord <darklord2007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I choose xfs but it says The grub boot loader installation often fails
>> or hangs when / boot is on a XFS file system.
>>
>> On 11/23/08, Angel <fedora at linux.org.bd> wrote:
>> > Well. When I first heard about JFS. I did a little research on it on the
>> > net.
>> >
>> > Based on various sites forums and blogs, *XFS appears to be the most
>> > appropriate filesystem* to install on a file server for home or small
>> > business needs :
>> >
>> > - It uses the maximum capacity of your server hard disk(s)
>> > - It is the quickest FS to create, mount and unmount
>> > - It is the quickest FS for operations on large files (>500MB)
>> > - This FS gets a good second place for operations on a large number
>> > of
>> > small to moderate-size files and directories
>> > - It constitutes a good CPU vs time compromise for large directory
>> > listing or file search
>> > - It is not the least CPU demanding FS but its use of system
>> ressources
>> > is quite acceptable for older generation hardware
>> >
>> > While Linux Gazette Authors, *Justin Piszcz* did not explicitly
>> > recommand
>> > XFS, he concludes that "Personally, I still choose XFS for filesystem
>> > performance and scalability". I can only support this conclusion.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Angel
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>> >
>> > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:19 PM, dark lord <darklord2007 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Is there any advantage using jfs for linux not ext3?
>> >>
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