On 22 Jul 2002 at 11:03, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, David Wojtowicz wrote:
>
> > >Also, a word to Redhat 7.3 users: in case you haven't seen it, updated
> > >psmisc packages are available
> > >(http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh73-errata.html).
> > >There is a bug whereby if you run ldmadmin stop, it sometimes won't
> > >killall (or even any) of the processes. This patch fixes that problem.
> > >Otherwise, and even with that, the LDM has never been more stable on my
> > >system. RH 7.3 really rocks, by far and away the best release yet, IMO.
> >
> > NB... do not make the filesystem containing your product queue or
> > destination of pqact entries an ext3 filesystem. You will pay
> > severely in performance.
>
> And what is an ext3 file system compared to ext2?
ext3 is a journaling file system. Basicly jfs is MUCH faster/easier to fix
after crashes.
If you want details try searching for ext3 and jfs on google, theres several
good places to read
about it.
I'm using it on my ldm/mcidas machine at work and don't notice any performance
loss.
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