On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello LUG Members, > > I want to try XFS on my home system. I have read some articles saying > XFS is faster than Ext3 but Less reliable than it. > So, I would like to read your experiences about FSs other than Ext3. > > --
You could search for some benchmarking for different fs but here are my exp - 1. Desktop related files - fs = Reiser fs ( I know there's no more development etc etc ... ) but it still is the most suitable for an avg linux user. If your h/w is old don't use this. btw data recovery is really bad in reiser fs you stand losing your data big-time if the h/w crashes ( different from power failure ) 2. DB , Big files fs = XFS works really well for data where new files aren't created and the file size is really big. yane ki movies store karna hai toh yahan karo. 3. ext3 / ext 4 = production grade filesystems that allow really good data recovery in case there's some h/w failure. home office vagera ke liye yeh accha hai. If you want more speed try the writeback mode. 4. JFS ka experience toh dicey raha hai. No great advantage over xfs / ext3 5. If you are adventurous then give ext 4 ( with extents ) or btrfs a try on a separate partition. regards C -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
