On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:30:05 -0400 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> 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. >
I've been using ext3 for several months now, and it's survived a few hard reboots without any squawks. xfs questions 1) now that it's available in kernel source, is the version merged into the kernel any better or worse than before? I used it briefly some time ago, but got really tired <tm> of finding out that I couldn't upgrade my kernel when I wanted to. I would assume that's no longer a problem? 2) Any problems with grub and/or lilo? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? Gentoo_rc6-15(1.1a) 2.4.19pre - kde3 + sylpheed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
