Re: RAID Stripe size

I have found JFS to be just fine. We have been running a medium load on this
server for 9 months with no unscheduled down time. Datbase is about 30gig on
disk, and we get about 3-4 requests per second that generate results sets in
the thousands from about 8am to about 11pm.

I have foudn that JFS barfs if you put a million files in a directory and
try to do an 'ls', but then so did reiser, only Ext3 handled this test
succesfully. Fortunately with a database, this is an atypical situation, so
JFS has been fine for DB for us so far.

We have had severe problems with Ext3 when file systems hit 100% usage, they
get all kinds of unhappy, we haven't had the same problem with JFS.

Alex Turner
NetEconomist

On 9/20/05, Welty, Richard <richard(dot)welty(at)bankofamerica(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Alex Turner wrote:
>
> > I would also recommend looking at file system. For us JFS worked
> signifcantly
> > faster than resier for large read loads and large write loads, so we
> chose JFS
> > over ext3 and reiser.
>
> has jfs been reliable for you? there seems to be a lot of conjecture about
> instability,
> but i find jfs a potentially attractive alternative for a number of
> reasons.
>
> richard
>
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