On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 15:45:45 +0000, robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > >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. > >> > > > >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. > > > > > > > I suspect most of the reported Reiser problems were with early versions > of reiserfs (whic, like much UNIX-speak, I initially mis-read - as > REI-serfs!). I managed to completely mangle a Reiser box after a crash > by injudicious use of the associated FS tools, but to be fair, the > package did come up with one of those big cheery warnings along the > lines of "This is experimental software and using it can result in your > computer being reduced to a heap of melted silicon" or whatever. I > think recent versions of reiserfs are pretty stable. Having said that, > I may try ext3 when I get round to installing 9.0. I have a box at work > with ext2, which I definitely don't want (given the frequency of power > failures here) so I'll test it on that.
I've been following the writings of Daniel Robbins, leader of the Gentoo Project and author of the Filesystems Guides at IBM DeveloperWorks. He wrote that ReiserFS has had problems in the past, but in the last few kernel releases it has been very solid. The Gentoo documentation has also been changed to reflect this. If you plan to use LVM, or better yet EVMS, ReiserFS is a good choice. It is both fast (particularly for smaller files) and reliable, and ReiserFS filesystems can be grown and shrunken. XFS can only be grown, and since it is not an official part of the 2.4 series kernels it can interfere with some kernel performance patches, like the low-latency and kernel preempt patches. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "... _no_ major software project that has been successful in a general marketplace (as opposed to niches) has ever gone through those nice lifecycles they tell you about in CompSci classes. Have you _ever_ heard of a project that actually started off with trying to figure out what it should do, a rigorous design phase, and a implementation phase?" -- Linus Torvalds
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