[Techtalk] partitioning - pro, con

[Mani A]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Gina Feichtinger
<geekgrrl at geekgrrl.priv.at> wrote:
> On 13.10.2008 18:13 Uhr, Mani A wrote:
>> It depends on the type of file system being used too. Performance of a
>> FS like ext3 does not scale as well as JFS. The best is to have many
>> partitions using different FS and from 18GB to 90GB with 3 primaries.
>> You can always use LVM.
>
> What's your personal experience on ext3 vs. JFS? I'm curious since I'm the
> sysadmin for roughly 40 Linux servers and I have file systems ranging from
> 1GB to 700GB (internal hard disks as well as SAN storage). They're all ext3
> mainly because a) IIRC JFS is not available with a stock RHEL AS 3/4
> install and b) if the journal breaks you can still use/mount the file
> system as ext2 if I'm not mistaken. So unless I see a -significant-
> advantage of JFS over ext3 I don't think I'll be switching...
>