Daniel Robbins, president of Gentoo Technologies, has some really good articles on the IBM website. Here are a few of those articles on filesystems:
Introducing ext3 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs7/ Surprises in ext3 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8/ Introducing XFS - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs9.html Deploying XFS - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs10.html Journalling and ReiserFS - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs.html Using ReiserFS and Linux 2.4 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs2.html Cheers, -- Trevor Lauder Web: http://www.thelauders.net E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resume: http://www.thelauders.net/resume/ Gentoo Powered "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." -- Albert Einstein Shawn Grover said: > Thanks to the recent discussion on Gentoo - I'm now looking at building a > Gentoo based web/email server, with Samba. I started reading through the > install guide last night, and it mentions that you need to setup a file > system, but leaves the type of file system optional. One of the recent > posts suggests the ReiserFS is good when many small files are used. Other > than that, I don't know much about the differences in the file systems. > Is > there a decent site out there that discusses the pros and cons of each? > If > not, would someone knowlegable on the topic be willing to offer some > comments? > > Thanks in advance. > > Shawn > >
