default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sun Mar 2 00:44:55 UTC 2014



Am 02.03.2014 01:36, schrieb Chris Murphy:
> On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:51 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> 
>> Am 02.03.2014 00:42, schrieb Chris Murphy:
>>>
>>> On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:29:30PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>>>>> - There needs to be a mandate to remove features from custom partitioning
>>>>>> that quite frankly don't make sense like rootfs on raid4, raid5 or
>>>>>> raid6. OK maybe raid5. But not raid 4 or raid 6. There are other
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, I'll bite. Why not rootfs on raid6?
>>>>
>>>> It's pathological. There are too many simpler, faster, more resilient options considering rootfs at most isn't bigger than the average SSD: Two or three SSDs + n-way mirroring. RAID 10. Or RAID 1 + linear + XFS for deterministic workloads.
>>>
>>> Those three examples are simpler, more resilient, easier to configure and maintain, perform better, with faster rebuild times than RAID 6 which also has a high read-modify-write penalty. I left that part out.
>>
>> yes, but RAID6 allows a disk-fault *while* rebuild the RAID after the first one
>> RADID 10 *may* do the same if the *right* second disk fails
> 
> If you need two disk failure tolerance use n-way mirroring with three disks, anaconda supports this

and if you need failure tolerance *and* performance?
yes, then use commercial SAN storages...

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 246 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20140302/2b0829ad/attachment.sig>


More information about the devel mailing list