[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

Robert Brockway robert at timetraveller.org
Tue Jan 7 09:12:45 EST 2003


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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Greg Black wrote:

> The general anti-dump stance of Linus and the frequent stories
> about flaky behaviour under Linux is the main serious reason why
> I still don't actually use Linux.  The truth is that dump is the
> perfect tool for backups and I just won't use any system that
> does not provide a proper working dump/restore.

Don't worry Greg.  I use dump to do backups under Linux and have for some
time.  I've also never seen a problem with restores (and I do check my
dumps periodically).  I will be investigating these claims of "stale data"
more closely.  If all else fails I may bring forward my intended jump to
xfs which most definately considers xfsdump/xfsrestore the correct and
recommended way to backup (according to SGI supplied documentation).

For a while, I've been proposing that ext2/3 will start to fail off in
performance relatively to xfs/reiserfs/jfs as time goes on.  I read today,
while looking into this matter, that ext2/3 apparently starts to suffer a
storage efficiency problem once filesystems go into the TB (terrabyte)
range (didn't record a reference sorry).

At this point I think ext2/3 will be sidelined and eventually (some years
down the track) deprecated just as the ext filesystem was before it.  I
think both xfs & reiser4 will go on to be the "standard" Linux
filesystems, with xfs having the edge initially as it is far more mature
(reiser4 is only beta after all :).  Jfs may yet come into its own but it
doesn't seem to be being pushed as much.

Cheers,
	-Rob

-- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert at timetraveller.org  ICQ: 104781119
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