Scribbling feverishly on April 12, Harry G managed to emit: > I am going to be setting up a new workstation, probably with Suse. I > have a little experience with ext 3 file system (OK so far) but are > there any advantages of one over the other? File integrity is the > prime consideration, as apposed to speed.
For me, XFS wins hands down. It has the most mature code base, because it's been in use on SGI's high performance workstations for years. I understand JFS is also solid, but have no personal experience with it. I've also used ext3 and have had no problems *so far* with data corruption. In descending order of preference based on my own experience: XFS ext3 ext2 That said, allow me to recommend a book, "Linux Filesystems," written by William von Hagen. It was written with a 2.4.9 kernel in mind, but the issues should be the same. He covers all of the major and some of the minor filesystems available for Linux. He also covers distributed filesystems (OpenAFS and NFS come to mind), Netware, Samba, Netatalk logical volume management, how to perform benchmarking for your environment, and so on. Great book -- I've just started reading my (personally autographed) copy, but I can already see that it will be a keeper. Kurt -- You have a deep appreciation of the arts and music. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
