[Discuss] Linux file systems

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I'm a fan of btree file systems going back to the 1970s. IBM used it on
their mainframes (VSAM) back then.

On 03/28/2014 06:51 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
>> From: aldo albanese [mailto:aldo_albanese at yahoo.com]
>>
>> At the beginning I was not too
>> specific about where I would utilize these system structures.  This group
>> brings another interesting point, what is the best file system for
>> different applications.  If I had to build a new server for production
>> environment, what would you suggest as partition and file system.
> Depends what your application is.  I normally use openindiana for ZFS, and use iscsi to present storage to vmware.  Because vmware is bad about managing storage or redundancy - I can ZFS snapshot the vm underlying storage, and I can zfs send to offsite backups.  Supposedly, you should be able to do the same now on btrfs or zfs on linux - but I haven't thoroughly vetted that configuration.
>
> I normally have a plain ext4 partition for /boot.  And everything else is LVM.  
>
> Given the fact that all my linux machines run inside vmware, and therefore the underlying openindiana zfs is able to manage the machine snapshots, I normally don't bother doing anything fancy with filesystems in the linux guests, and everything simply runs ext4.
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