On 9/9/2012 3:25 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've been following this thread from its beginning. My initial reading > of OP's post was to marvel at the thought that so many things/tasks > could be done with a single box in a single geek's cubicle.
One consumer quad core AMD Linux box of today can do a whole lot more than what has been mentioned. > I resolved > to follow the thread that would surely follow closely. I think you, > Stan, did OP an enormous service with your list of questions to be > answered. I try to prevent other from shooting themselves in the foot when I see the loaded gun in their hand. > This thread drifted onto the topic of XFS. I first learned of the > existence of XFS from earlier post by you, and I have ever since been > curious about it. But I am retired, and live at home in an environment > where there is very little opportunity to make use of its features. You might be surprised. The AG design and xfs_fsr make it useful for home users. > Perhaps you could take OP's original specification as a user wish list > and sketch a design that would fulfill the wishlist and list how XFS > would change or resolve issues that were/are troubling him. The OP's issues don't revolve around filesystem choice, but basic system administration concepts. > In particular, the typical answers to questions about backup on this list > involve rsync, or packages that depend on rsync, and on having a file > system that uses inodes and supports hard links. rsync works with any filesystem, but some work better with rsync workloads. If one has concurrent rsync jobs running XFS is usually best. > How would an XFS design > handle "de-duplication"? Deduplication isn't an appropriate function of a filesystem. > Or is de-duplication simply a bad idea in very > large systems? That's simply a bad, very overly broad question. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/504dc2fa.1080...@hardwarefreak.com
