On Tuesday 21 August 2001 17:32, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday 21 August 2001 12:19 pm, Oscar escribi�: > > I have read that Mandrake 8.1 kernel will have support for ext3, > > reiserfs and IBM JFS. > > What do you thing about these file systems? What filesystem is the > > best in terms of speed, stability, compatibility? > > I'm now using ReiserFS. > > My take, from lurkin on the cooker list, it's a contest between ext3 > and Reiser, JFS doesn't get a whole lot'a mention. > > My experience, I've been using RieserFS for a year now, no problems, > many benefits over ext2. It looks to be a contest between ext3 and Reiserfs for real. Here is the current status: We use a sledgehammer to test filesystems. It makes 100,000 files from 1.1 to 3k in size then randomly alters the sizes of the files between 2 and 9k each then cleans up after itself when given the stop instruction, with a one-by-one delete of the files. If run in inactive or dead mode, it receives the stop instruction as soon as the 100,000 files are built and then takes them down. This is used for benchmarking filesystems. JFS reproducibly collapses under the benchmark and takes the system with it, even if the scratch directory is the only item on the jfs partition and the rest are ext2. Unless something fantastic happens with JFS very soon, you will not be seeing it in 8.1. Reiser and nfs mounts are still problematic though having Reiser support no longer seems to weaken nfs for other types of mounts. Reiser has stood up to several 8 hour runs of the sledgehammer on different machines, but not over nfs. No data corruption, though. There is also an open question about / filesystems of the journaling type. Perhaps it is best to keep / small and ext2. Reiser notail mounts were the best in earlier versions, but in 8.0 lost files and kernel oopses were commonly observed, as well as system hangs when trying to rebuild notail mounts. Civileme
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