Amazon EBS Snapshot Backups with LVM and XFS
Monday, September 22nd, 2008I’m working on setting up a server to host email accounts on Amazon EC2 using the newly released Elastic Block Storage. My benchmarking has shown XFS to be better than ReiserFS for this task - and presumably EXT3, but I ran out of patience.
Since I will need to grow the filesystem in the future, I am using LVM. This also allows me to break up the logical volume into separate EBS volumes, which should increase random access performance. (more…)