On 9/9/05, Sérgio Gomes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Fastest" is a bit relative, some are better in some situations, some > are better in others... > > Anyway, Reiser4 should be the fastest overall, and it has full > journaling and atomic writes (which means you should never get your > filesystem corrupted). It's also the newest, however, and could still > have a few bugs left. It's also not available in the mainstream kernel, > so you need to patch your kernel or get a patched one. > > ReiserFS (aka Reiser3) is also pretty good, especially when handling > lots of tiny files. Only has metadata journaling (directories and such). > It is a lot better than ext3. > > In fact, ext3 is one of the worst in terms of performance. > > XFS only has metadata journaling. It's not optimized for your setup > though, it is oriented for very large systems, with very fast disks. It > has some problems with data loss in crashes or power shortages, because > it stores quite a few things in RAM before writing to disk. Definitely > not recommended for your setup. > > These are the ones I know, although I've never tried Reiser4 (it was > quite unstable in 64-bit mode until a while ago, so I never used it). > > All these systems are (to several degrees) journalled, which means that > system checking should be very fast, under one second or something, > because they keep a log of activities, and they only need to check that > log in case of problems. > > > As to which, I've had no problems with ReiserFS, and I recommend it. If > you like experimenting, do regular backups, and don't mind using a > relatively new filesystem, then go for Reiser4, it should be the fastest > and best in terms of journalling. > > > Sérgio Gomes > > --- > Stef Coene wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Currently, I have a 70 GB partition formatted as ext3. It's a bit slow when > >deleting big files so I want to reformat it. But what's the best choice? > >XFS is good, but what's the file system check speed? Running fsck on my ext3 > >file system takes forever... > > > > > >Stef > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >mythtv-users mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
I like reiserfs and am using reiserfs3 for my journaled partition. But speed wise it is actaully the slowest at deletes. But that said, it has other features I like. It can be resized up OR down in size. I actually used this durning my last upgrade where I took some space from my video storage to use for installing a new distro for rebuild. I think that xfs can only go larger in size.. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
