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Re: Preventing ext3 fsck at boot?

From: Mike Kearey <mkearey(at)redhat.com>
Date: Sat Sep 29 2007 - 18:27:26 EDT


Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
<snip>

>>
>> ext3 is best used on a RHEL4 system because it's what we develop, test
>> and support. That is a very important consideration. Note that this does
>> not mean it's the best one on a technical and theoretical or performance
>> standpoint.

>
> That is an interesting point, and one that I didn't consider. All of
> our RHEL systems are built from a local Satellite Server, but we have
> bought a few "retail" licenses, for the purposes of support. So, can I
> take it that you're stating that if we were to have a problem with an
> XFS, or Reiser filesystem, and opened a support case with it, we might
> experience some issues? That is an important point, so thanks ... that
> does help inform our decision.

A nice simple way to put it is 'We ship it, we support it'.  ext3 is all the things you want IMO :

(a) reliability, (b) performance, and (c) ease of administrative tasks. . A couple more (d)Long support cycle (e) a good engineering and maintenance understanding of it from your vendor.

Cheers
Michael

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