On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the > best filesystem" fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on > uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database > machines etc. > > Wnat I want is a fast and stable (!) filesystem for a desktop PC > with one 1TByte harddisk. Since using Gentoo and a lot of sources > I do compile very often "bigger things" (blender-2.50 for example). > Another thing: Due to my experimenting it is possible that I have to > reboot "hard", which means, the filesystem will be unmounted not > cleanly ("dirty" do to say...;) The choosen filesystem should be > good in recovering such thing. > > I am currently using a vanilla 2.6.32.10 kernel. > > The question, what remains is: What choose should I make? > > I thank you very much in advance for any help! > Best regards, > mcc >
This doesn't address why you would choose one over another but it was a recent view of Reiser4 vs a couple of others. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=reiser4_benchmarks&num=1 I'm way behind. I haven't even tried ext4 yet! Good luck, Mark