On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
> On 04/24/2010 12:53 PM, B. Alexander wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a question on filesystems. Back in the day, I started using >> reiser3. It was faster than ext3, and it could be extended without >> umounting the filesystem (which has since been fixed in ext3), plus, >> unlike any filesystem I have encountered, it could be reduced in size. >> >> Well, now reiser3 is very long in the tooth, reiser4 will probably never >> go anywhere, so I'm wondering what filesystems are recommended. Last I >> heard, ext4 is stablizing, but it had problems with filesystem >> corruption, though that was mid-fall last year, IIRC. >> >> So now, I would like to slowly start replacing my reiser3 partitions >> with...something else. There are two options, the old standards, e.g. >> ext3/4, xfs, etc, and then there are a slew of new filesystems, such as >> nilfs2, btrfs and exofs. >> >> I'm talking about a range of machines, from workstations to servers to >> NFS and storage servers with multi-terabyte disks, and a backup server >> with several hundred gigs of backups. >> >> Does anyone have suggestions and practical experience with the pros and >> cons of the various filesystems? >> >> > XFS is the canonical fs for when you have lots of Big Files. I've also > seen simple benchmarks on this list showing that it's faster than ext3/ext4. > Thats cool. What about Lots of Little Files? That was another of the draws of reiser3. I have a space I mount on /media/archive, which has everything from mp3/oggs and movies, to books to a bunch of tiny files. This will probably be the first victim for the xfs test partition. nilfs2, btrfs and exofs are *definitely* still beta or even alpha. > > xfs and ext[34] can all be extended. For production servers with a working > UPS, I'd go with ext3 for / & /boot and xfs (since it hates sudden power > outages) for the "/data" directories. For production workstations, I'd > stick with the standby ext3 for / & /boot and ext3 or xfs for /home and > "/data" (depending on the workload). > Define "hates sudden power outages"...Is it recoverable? Thanks for the info, Ron, --b
