On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 22:50, Jim Fazio wrote: > List, > Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I should > use in MDK 9.0. I am assuming there is still three to choose from. I'm > trying to research which is "best", but only finding older material. > Does anyone have a preference? Why? Which filesystem is the default > now? I want to map out my choices before I get there. > > TIA, > Jim F
Jim, I believe in reliability in case of crash or power failure, so I use ext3. Civileme likes XFS for it's performance and multimedia abilities. The last thing I read from Sridhar, I think he was messing with Reiser. Not sure what Dfox is doing these days. ;) There are advantages and disadvantages to all the jfs's. Ext3 is rock solid, with a slight performance hit. But it gives you very good recovery, almost trouble free if your hardware is pristine, and it is the only filesystem that offers data journaling mode. The others are metadata journaling filesystems; ext3 does both. XFS can handle terabyte sized files (I think) but cannot support the full set of file attributes that ext3 can. Reiser is reputed by most to be fast, by others to be trouble free, and yet others have had problems. I'm not sure about full file attribute support in Reiser. HTH--LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdk Evolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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