[Debian-uk] OT: What's required for a debian based small business server?

[Simon Waters]

Joel Merrick wrote:
> 
>> I've been meaning to write a Debian specific "How To" on implementing
>> similar functionality with XFS without the drawbacks. It isn't hard, but
>> I felt the need to make it "obvious".
> 
> That's very interesting.. Is this down to XATTRs on XFS itself or is
> it some other implementation, just running on top of XFS (and
> applicable to EXT3 or JFS/Reiser etc...)?

My understanding is that XFS has the best snapshot implementation with
regard to doing snapshots of active filesystems. As I said I want to
write it up, to force me to research such points, such as if that is
actually the case or just some errant idea I picked up from an XFS bigot
(I'm a ReiserFS user for most of my systems, but then most aren't trying
to use snapshots).