Hi,

TheSSS 23.0 will be released in two weeks. It will come with a new installer, which is going to support ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, jfs, xfs, btrfs and nilfs2 partitions. Additionally, much improved support for SCSI/RAID will be available out of the box.

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Installation:
1) Boot TheSSS liveCD (or USB).
2) Ask BusyBox for help (*):
3) Create a Linux partition with cfdisk.
4) Format the partition, e.g.
5) Run the 4MLinux installation script
Done!

(*) This command starts a daemon, which works like a "mixture" of udev and partprobe.

Installation:
1) Boot TheSSS liveCD (or USB).
2) Ask BusyBox for help:
3) Create a Linux partition with cfdisk.
4) Format the partition, e.g.
5) Run the 4MLinux installation script:
6) Boot your new TheSSS.
7) Configure the Internet connection:
8) Download and install GRUB:
Done!

1) Create two Linux partitions, e.g.
/dev/sda1 --> small ext4 partition (boot partition)
/dev/sda2 --> big btrfs partition
2) Install TheSSS on the ext4 partition.
3) Boot TheSSS located on the ext4 partition.
4) Now use TheSSS located on the ext4 partition to:
a) install TheSSS on the btrfs partition,
b) install GRUB.

Done!

1) Create a partition for TheSSS:
/dev/sda1 --> small ext4 partition
2) Install TheSSS on /dev/sda1.
3) Boot your new TheSSS.
4) Create a RAID partition:
/dev/sda1 --> small ext4 partition
/dev/md0p1 --> big RAID partition
5) Mount /dev/md0p1 somewhere, e.g.:
6) Make sure that Apache and ProFTPD are not running:
7) Move files:
8) Add the RAID partition to /etc/fstab.local:
9) Reboot.

Done!
Now you have TheSSS running on /dev/sda1. However, all the files hosted by the HTTP and FTP servers are located on the RAID partition with all the resulting benefits.

The default filesystem in 4MLinux (and TheSSS being its official fork) is ext4, which (in my very subjective opinion) is the best. However, it may happen that one of the other file systems supported by 4MLinux is better for your hardware configuration. Examples:
1) Your server hosts many small files of similar sizes. Try reiserfs.
2) Your server hosts rather big files. Try xfs.
3) Your headache is CPU utilization. Try jfs.
4) Your headache is HDD (slow read-write). Try ext2 or nilfs2.
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Have fun :-)

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